Underline text in Xamarin.Android witn MVVMCross

Question

I have Xamarin.Android project and use MVVMCross. I need to add some underlining text in my .axml layout.

I found some ways to do it but its don't work for me.

I have this layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:local="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">
<include
    layout="@layout/toolbar" />
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/TextView01"
    android:textSize="16sp"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginLeft="16dp"
    android:layout_marginRight="16dp"
    android:layout_below="@+id/toolbar"
    local:MvxBind="Text Strings[Text01]" />
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textLink"
    android:textSize="13sp"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginLeft="16dp"
    android:layout_marginRight="16dp"
    android:textColor="#1565C0"
    android:layout_below="@id/TextView01"
    local:MvxBind="Text Strings[textLink]; Click MyCommand" />
</RelativeLayout>

1. The string.

   <string name="your_string"><u>Underlined text</u></string>
   

I can't use this way because I use two languages and I have the folder Locales with two .txt files. So the project doesn't take strings from strings.xml

2. Paint.

       TextView MyLink = FindViewById<TextView>(Resource.Id.MyLink);
       MyLink.PaintFlags = (MyLink.PaintFlags | Android.Graphics.PaintFlags.UnderlineText);
   

3. FromHtml.

   txtView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<u>underlined</u> text"));
   

Doesn't work for me, besides I see the green underline and comment that this decision is deprecated.

How can I mark my TextView as underlined?

Answer 1

Option 2 looks like Java instead of xamarin c#, try:

txtView.PaintFlags = (txtView.PaintFlags | Android.Graphics.PaintFlags.UnderlineText);

And use the correct Id.