How do I make links in a TextView clickable?

Question

I have the following TextView defined:

<TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/txtCredits"
    android:autoLink="web" android:id="@+id/infoTxtCredits"
    android:layout_centerInParent="true"
    android:linksClickable="true"></TextView>

where @string/txtCredits is a string resource that contains <a href="some site">Link text</a>.

Android is highlighting the links in the TextView, but they do not respond to clicks. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Do I have to set an onClickListener for the TextView in my activity for something as simple as this?

Looks like it has to do with the way I define my string resource. This does not work:

<string name="txtCredits"><a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a></string>

But this does:

<string name="txtCredits">www.google.com</string>

Which is a bummer because I would much rather show a text link than show the full URL.

Answer 1

Manage Linkify text Color Also

tv_customer_care_no.setLinkTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.blue));
  tv_customer_care_no.setText("For us to reach out to you, please fill the details below or contact our customer care at  18004190899 or visit our website http://www.dupont.co.in/corporate-links/contact-dupont.html ");
   Linkify.addLinks(tv_customer_care_no, Linkify.WEB_URLS | Linkify.PHONE_NUMBERS);
   Linkify.addLinks(tv_customer_care_no, Linkify.ALL );

Answer 2

Use below code:

String html = "<a href=\"http://yourdomain.com\">Your Domain Name</a>"
TextView textview = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.your_textview_id);
textview.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
textview.setText(Html.fromHtml(html));

Answer 3

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

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. Pretty difficult to uncover and fix.

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

Answer 4

The easiest thing that worked for me is to use Linkify

TextView txt_Message = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.txt_message);
txt_Message.setText("This is link https://www.google.co.in/");
Linkify.addLinks(txt_Message, Linkify.WEB_URLS);

and it will automatically detect the web urls from the text in the textview.

Answer 5

The accepted answer is correct, BUT it will mean that phone numbers, maps, email addresses, and regular links e.g. http://google.com without href tags will NO LONGER be clickable since you can't have autolink in the xml.

The only complete solution to have EVERYTHING clickable that I have found is the following:

Spanned text = Html.fromHtml(myString);
URLSpan[] currentSpans = text.getSpans(0, text.length(), URLSpan.class);
SpannableString buffer = new SpannableString(text);
Linkify.addLinks(buffer, Linkify.ALL);
for (URLSpan span : currentSpans) {
    int end = text.getSpanEnd(span);
    int start = text.getSpanStart(span);
    buffer.setSpan(span, start, end, 0);
}
textView.setText(buffer);
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

And the TextView should NOT have android:autolink. There's no need for android:linksClickable="true" either; it's true by default.

Answer 6

The reason you're having the problem is that it only tries to match "naked" addresses. things like "www.google.com" or "http://www.google.com".

Running your text through Html.fromHtml() should do the trick. You have to do it programatically, but it works.