Put html link in edittext android

Question

I want to put <a href="google.com" target="_blank">google</a> in edittext and when I click on this text I want to open webview. How can I do that?

use this method...setAutoLinkMask() Automatically Finds url and email id and make it clickable... — Aravin, Sep 26 '13 at 06:37

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 26 '13 at 06:35

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Try adding the following code:

yourEditText.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

answered Sep 26 '13 at 06:35

Szymon

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 26 '13 at 06:39

Put your html in a string@

<string url="link">&lt;a href="http://www.google.com">Google&lt;/a></string>

set String to editText@

youredittext.setText(Html.fromHtml(getResources().getString(R.string.url)));

For click, set LinkMovementMethod with necessary action@

youredittext.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 26 '13 at 06:49

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try this

EditText et = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.et);
et.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href=\"http://www.google.com/\">Google</a> "));
et.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

answered Sep 26 '13 at 06:49

swati srivastav

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score -1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 26 '13 at 06:39

Why do you want that in an EditText??

What if you just use a button with the text "Google", and use it's onclick to call a method in your xml like:

android:onClick="openGoogleWebview"

and then add in your code

public void openGoogleWebview()
{
     Intent intent = new Intent(this, GoogleWebviewActivity.class)
}

Put html link in edittext android

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