android textview click on a link

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If I have a textview with spanned text obtained from Html.fromHtml(source), how to make the textview to react when I click on a link? In my textview, link is something like "click here" and this text is a link, it's not a direct link like www.google.com.

it seems that this is an android os bug. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2219 — Buda Gavril, Mar 22 '11 at 15:29
[Click this one, it's good for you][1] [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4790746/links-in-textview/13765953#13765953 — sonida, Jul 11 '13 at 06:35

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 04 '21 at 02:52

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 android:autoLink="web"

edited Nov 04 '21 at 02:52

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answered Apr 08 '12 at 11:17

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Yes it works. Put that on your TextView, and android:linksClickable="true" – Derzu May 25 '12 at 23:15

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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I guess you want to handle span click event by yourself.
There two ways for this:
1)Create new class extends URLSpan
2)Create new class extends LinkMovementMethod

Please see below url, may be help you.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/16182500/596555

edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 22 '11 at 09:46

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Butter to use Linkify
Refer Android Text Links Using Linkify

answered Mar 22 '11 at 09:46

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but my source code contains html tags... So, to use linkify, I need to get rid manually of these tags and linkify manually all ex link tags... isn't there a simple way? – Buda Gavril Mar 22 '11 at 09:50

Adeeksha Sathsara · Answer 4 · 2021-02-15T06:28:12.187

Add this to your tetView

android:text="@string/Documentation

Add this line to string.xml [ res/values]

<string name="Documentation"><a   href="https://developer.android.com/guide/components/activities/activity-lifecycle">Android Activity Lifecycle Documentation</a> 
</string>

Add This code to your MainActivity.java

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

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