Setting STRIKE_THROUGH Text in TextView via DataBinding

ashwini gupta

22 April 2017

There are many scenarios in which we need to show a Strike-through text to an android user like Old prices, old offers, etc. But android doesn’t give any such option via XML file.

So, How we can set a text in TextView to show a Strike-through text via DataBinding?

First of all, create TextView in our Layout

 <TextView
        android:id="@+id/list_price"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:text="@{products.formatlistPrice}"
        android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Small"
        android:textColor="@color/primary_color"
        tools:text="@string/price"/>

<TextView

android:id="@+id/list_price"

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_gravity="center"

android:text="@{products.formatlistPrice}"

android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Small"

android:textColor="@color/primary_color"

tools:text="@string/price"/>

and Return SpannableString from our Getter method

 public SpannableString getFormatlistPrice() {
        SpannableString formatListPrice = new SpannableString(this.formatlistPrice);
        formatListPrice.setSpan(new StrikethroughSpan(), 0, this.formatlistPrice.length(), Spanned.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
        return formatListPrice;
    }

public SpannableString getFormatlistPrice() {

SpannableString formatListPrice = new SpannableString(this.formatlistPrice);

formatListPrice.setSpan(new StrikethroughSpan(), 0, this.formatlistPrice.length(), Spanned.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

return formatListPrice;

}