How to click or tap on a TextView text

Question

I know this is so easy (doh...) but I am looking for a way to run a method on tapping or clicking a TextView line of text in an Android App.

I keep thinking about button listeners and anonymous method listener calls, but it just does not seem to apply to TextView.

Can someone point me at some code snippet to show how clicking or tapping on a piece of text in a TextView runs a method?

Answer 1

To click on a piece of the text (not the whole TextView), you can use Html or Linkify (both create links that open urls, though, not a callback in the app).

Linkify

Use a string resource like:

<string name="links">Here is a link: http://www.stackoverflow.com</string>

Then in a textview:

TextView textView = ...
textView.setText(R.string.links);
Linkify.addLinks(textView, Linkify.ALL);

Html

Using Html.fromHtml:

<string name="html">Here you can put html &lt;a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com"&gt;Link!&lt;/&gt;</string>

Then in your textview:

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.html)));

Answer 2

in textView

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="New Text"
    android:onClick="onClick"
    android:clickable="true"

You must also implement View.OnClickListener and in On Click method can use intent

    Intent intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
           intent.setData(Uri.parse("https://youraddress.com"));    
            startActivity(intent);

I tested this solution works fine.