How to make a part of text clickable like button in Android?

Question

I would like to add button myButton to TextView. How to get it in a single line so that it looks like one set of lines. Here is sample of the text to be added

Please press this here to refresh the set of values.

I want to have "here" as clickable button. How can I do it. Any snippet on it would be helpful.

duplicate question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3328757/how-to-click-or-tap-on-a-textview-text — PC., Jan 31 '12 at 09:17
You can try some of these approaches: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1697084/handle-textview-link-click-in-my-android-app — Vikram Bodicherla, Jan 31 '12 at 09:19

score 14 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 31 '12 at 08:37

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Set background of Button as null by android:background="@null" give the same text color as given to other TextView's.

or You can take 3 TextView's and setOnClickListener to middle one.

answered Jan 31 '12 at 08:37

Arun Badole

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how to have three textviews followed by one another in a multi line – Karthik Jan 31 '12 at 08:59
Hey ur suggestion was very useful to me...thanx – user1387035 Aug 29 '12 at 08:33
Simple and Elegant! I needed the link text color to be same as default color of hyperlinks in web. So I put `RGB(0, 122, 255)`, and looks the same! (Y) – Randika Vishman Dec 30 '15 at 11:30

J. Gobet · Answer 2 · 2016-06-16T08:49:38.127

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Set style of Button with borderless android attribut to remove background and border:

<Button
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    style="?android:attr/borderlessButtonStyle"
    android:text="here" />

edited Jun 16 '16 at 08:49

answered Jun 16 '16 at 08:18

J. Gobet

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 31 '12 at 08:24

make three textView ex: textView1, textView2 and textView3.

<RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/textLay"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    >

    <TextView android:id="@+id/textView1" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:text="Please press this"/>

    <TextView android:id="@+id/textView2" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
         android:text="here" 
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/textView1"  />

    <TextView android:id="@+id/textView3" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
         android:text="to refresh the set of values." 
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/textView2"  />

</RelativeLayout>

This doesnt comes well when we take into multi line text.How to solve it in due with modifying the snippet. — Karthik, Jan 31 '12 at 08:58

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 31 '12 at 09:23

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Just add below attribute to TextView in XML layout file to make it clickable.

android:clickable="true"

In your Java file add OnClickListener to complete click action on text view.

answered Jan 31 '12 at 09:23

Yugandhar Babu

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score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Dec 22 '15 at 05:23

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Add android:clickable="true" and android:onClick="yourclickname" for the TextView in the XML. Then define yourclickname in your activity. This should make your TextView clickable and triggers the specified method when clicked.

edited Dec 22 '15 at 05:23

Mangesh

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answered Oct 08 '14 at 11:07

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easiest solution and answers the original question exactly. – Jason K. Mar 04 '17 at 00:54

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