Links in Textview

How to make links in a TextView clickable

Buried in the API demos, I found the solution to my problem:

File Link.java:

    // text2 has links specified by putting <a> tags in the string
    // resource.  By default these links will appear but not
    // respond to user input.  To make them active, you need to
    // call setMovementMethod() on the TextView object.

    TextView t2 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text2);
    t2.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

I removed most of the attributes on my TextView to match what was in the demo.

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/text2"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/txtCredits"/>

That solved it. It is pretty difficult to uncover and fix.

Important: Don't forget to remove autoLink="web" if you are calling setMovementMethod().

Part of TextView clickable with a link

check below point before testing

• Check your link starts with http:// or https://
• Place your String in CDATA tag (like <string name="some_text"><![CDATA[PLACE_YOUR_HTML_STRING_HERE]]></string>)
• Check you have added internet Permission in your manifest.xml file <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
• then dynamically html text can be set using below code into textView

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
    textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.html_string), Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_COMPACT));
} else { 
    textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.html_string)));
}
Linkify.addLinks(textView, Linkify.ALL);
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

How to make a textview text link clickable

try with this code, its working code in my project.

SpannableString ss = new SpannableString("Android is a Software stack");
ClickableSpan clickableSpan = new ClickableSpan() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View textView) {
        startActivity(new Intent(MyActivity.this, NextActivity.class));
    }
    @Override
    public void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds) {
            super.updateDrawState(ds);
            ds.setUnderlineText(false);
        }
};
ss.setSpan(clickableSpan, 22, 27, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.hello);
textView.setText(ss);
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
textView.setHighlightColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);

How to set the part of the text view is clickable

Have HyperLink Text in TextView

Use SpannableString for this

    SpannableString ss = new SpannableString("Your string value");
    ClickableSpan clickableTerms = new ClickableSpan() {
      @Override
      public void onClick(View textView) {
               // show toast here
         }
      @Override
      public void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds) {
           super.updateDrawState(ds);
           ds.setUnderlineText(true);

                }
            };
  ss.setSpan(clickableTerms, 4, 10, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
  myTextView.setText(ss);
  myTextView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
  myTextView.setHighlightColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);

You can make multiple words clickable by this method.

Multiple Clickable links in TextView on Android

You can use Linkify (android.text.Spannable,java.util.regex.Pattern,java.lang.String)

String termsAndConditions = getResources().getString(R.string.terms_and_conditions);
String privacyPolicy = getResources().getString(R.string.privacy_policy);

legalDescription.setText(
    String.format(
        getResources().getString(R.string.message),
        termsAndConditions,
        privacyPolicy)
);
legalDescription.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

Pattern termsAndConditionsMatcher = Pattern.compile(termsAndConditions);
Linkify.addLinks(legalDescription, termsAndConditionsMatcher, "terms:");

Pattern privacyPolicyMatcher = Pattern.compile(privacyPolicy);
Linkify.addLinks(legalDescription, privacyPolicyMatcher, "privacy:");

and then you can use the scheme to start an activity for example by adding the scheme in the AndroidManifest:

<intent-filter>
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
    <data android:scheme="terms" />
    <data android:scheme="privacy" />
</intent-filter>

If you want to do a custom action, you can set the intent-filter to your current activity, which will have a singleTop launchmode.

This will cause onNewIntent to be fired where can make your custom actions:

@Override
protected void onNewIntent(final Intent intent) {
 ...
  if (intent.getScheme().equals(..)) {
    ..
  }
}

Links in TextView

Thank you for your help all.

I have managed to make this work, after I have found some examples in the android samples.

here is the code:

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(
            "<b>text3:</b>  Text with a " +
            "<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">link</a> " +
            "created in the Java source code using HTML."));
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

Hope this help others...

How handle 2 link click in textview use string resources?

I have used as below mentioned in my apps.

string.xml

<string name="about_fragment_privacy_policy" translatable="false">User Agreement and Privacy Policy</string>

Layout.xml

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/privacyPolicy"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/about_fragment_privacy_policy" />

Kotlin code

string = getString(R.string.about_fragment_privacy_policy)
spannableString = SpannableString(string)
val clickableUserAgreement = object : ClickableSpan() {
    override fun onClick(widget: View) {
        startActivity(
            Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW).setData(
                Uri.parse(
                    "https://example.com"
                )
            )
        )
    }
}
val clickablePrivacyPolicy = object : ClickableSpan() {
    override fun onClick(widget: View) {
        startActivity(
            Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW).setData(
                Uri.parse(
                    "https://example.com"
                )
            )
        )
    }
}
spannableString.setSpan(
    clickableUserAgreement,
    0,
    14,
    Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE
)
spannableString.setSpan(
    ForegroundColorSpan(resources.getColor(R.color.colorPrimary)),
    0,
    14,
    0
)
spannableString.setSpan(
    clickablePrivacyPolicy,
    19,
    string.length,
    Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE
)
spannableString.setSpan(
    ForegroundColorSpan(resources.getColor(R.color.colorPrimary)),
    19,
    string.length,
    0
)
privacyPolicy.text = spannableString
privacyPolicy.movementMethod = LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()

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