How can I get clickable hyperlinks in AlertDialog

Question

What I am trying to accomplish is to have clickable hyperlinks in the message text displayed by an AlertDialog. While the AlertDialog implementation happily underlines and colors any hyperlinks (defined using <a href="..."> in the string resource passed to Builder.setMessage) supplied the links do not become clickable.

The code I am currently using looks like this:

new AlertDialog.Builder(MainActivity.this).setTitle(
        R.string.Title_About).setMessage(
        getResources().getText(R.string.about))
        .setPositiveButton(android.R.string.ok, null)
        .setIcon(R.drawable.icon).show();

I'd like to avoid using a WebView to just display a text snippet.

Answer 1

Simplest way:

final AlertDialog dlg = new AlertDialog.Builder(this)
                .setTitle(R.string.title)
                .setMessage(R.string.message)
                .setNeutralButton(R.string.close_button, null)
                .create();
        dlg.show();
        // Important! android.R.id.message will be available ONLY AFTER show()
        ((TextView)dlg.findViewById(android.R.id.message)).setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

Answer 2

JFTR, here comes the solution which I figured out after some time:

View view = View.inflate(MainActivity.this, R.layout.about, null);
TextView textView = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.message);
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
textView.setText(R.string.Text_About);
new AlertDialog.Builder(MainActivity.this).setTitle(
        R.string.Title_About).setView(view)
        .setPositiveButton(android.R.string.ok, null)
        .setIcon(R.drawable.icon).show();

The corresponding about.xml borrowed as a fragment from the Android sources looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/scrollView" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:paddingTop="2dip"
    android:paddingBottom="12dip" android:paddingLeft="14dip"
    android:paddingRight="10dip">
    <TextView android:id="@+id/message" style="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:padding="5dip" android:linksClickable="true" />
</ScrollView>

The important parts are setting linksClickable to true and setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()).