Clickable Links inside listview

Question

List view clickable link poblem.

I'm using the following code inside the getView() to generate a clickable link in a listview.

myTextView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
String linkText = "<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">Google</a>";
myTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(linkText));

This code works fine on a textview which is not in a listview but when i use it for a textview within a list view the following exception is raised on clicking the link.

AndroidRuntimeException: Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity
context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag. Is this really what you want?

Something sounds weird to me.. this code is inside a custom adapter right? is there an onClickListener in it? — Joe, Apr 23 '12 at 10:13
yeah this is inside the custom adapters getView method. No there isn't and onClickListner to it. — Vikas Gulati, Apr 23 '12 at 10:17
umm.. I found this http://www.stevenmarkford.com/solution-to-android-error-calling-startactivity-outside-activity-context-requires-flag_activity_new_task/ dont know if it will help — Joe, Apr 23 '12 at 10:26

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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Got the answer here. I just had to change the constructor call from

CustomAdapter mAdapter = new CustomAdapter( mContext, itemList);

to

CustomAdapter mAdapter = new CustomAdapter( this, itemList);

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Apr 24 '12 at 05:21

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Great Answer, for those who struggle to solve. Simply, from where you are initialising your `Adapter` be it any adapter `CustomAdapter`, `ArrayAdapter` or your regular `BaseAdapter`, just put `this` instead of `getApplicationContext()` or something else – Anas Azeem Jun 13 '14 at 13:11
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Thank you soooo much, was going crazy trying to figure out why i was getting this error :) – cking24343 Mar 06 '15 at 19:44

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 23 '12 at 11:17

   TextView textView2 = (TextView)findViewById( R.id.TextView2 );
   SpannableStringBuilder ssb = new SpannableStringBuilder( http://google.com" );
   textView2.setText( ssb, BufferType.SPANNABLE );
   Linkify.addLinks( textView2, Linkify.WEB_URLS );

     Try this one....

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 12 '13 at 18:06

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I had the problem that the ApplicationContext was used for inflating the views. Changed it to ActivityContext, now it works!

answered Dec 12 '13 at 18:06

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Clickable Links inside listview

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