How set TextView text both clickable and selectable?

Question

My textview load html text that contains links (to website, to e-mail address ...)

tv = (TextView)((Activity)mContext).findViewById(R.id.entry_webview);
tv.setText(Html.fromHtml(myPage));

I settv.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()); to make the linke be clickable. I set tv.setTextIsSelectable(true); to make the text selectable.

What happens? TextView applies just the last setting, in this order case, text will be ONLY selectable and the link(s) won't be clickable, one setting excludes the other other one.

If I set in TextView in XML

android:autoLink="all"
android:textIsSelectable="true"

links don't work (e-mail yes).

Is there a way to make the text both clickable and selectable?

Thanks.

possible duplicate of [TextView that is linkified and selectable?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14862750/textview-that-is-linkified-and-selectable) — Flow, Nov 30 '13 at 16:42

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 04 '14 at 15:54

I had the same issue - this solution works for me:

The XML TextView should not have any link/selectable attributes:

<TextView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

Then, set everything programmatically respecting the following order:

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(myHtml));
Linkify.addLinks(textView, Linkify.WEB_URLS);
textView.setTextIsSelectable(true); // API-11 and above
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 04 '13 at 15:41

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have you tried using something like this tv.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href='url'>link</a>"));

answered Sep 04 '13 at 15:41

Emmanuel

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Of course. myPage variable is a String that contains html page with many – gderaco Sep 04 '13 at 15:50
have you seen this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1697084/handle-textview-link-click-in-my-android-app – Emmanuel Sep 04 '13 at 15:51
Yeah, does not help :( – gderaco Sep 04 '13 at 19:31

How set TextView text both clickable and selectable?

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