Open TextView links at another activity - custom ClickableSpan

Question

I have a TextView with links and other text. I need to links to be clickable & I need to capture the click and open the link in a webview in my activity. I followed this this answer. My code looks like this:

actitivity_main.xml

 <TextView android:id="@+id/textlinktest"
              android:layout_width="wrap_content"
              android:layout_height="50dp"/>

And this is the way I invoke it:

textLinkTest.setText(Html.fromHtml("Something else <a href=\"http://www.google.com\">google</a>"));

textLinkTest.setText(RichTextUtils.replaceAll(
            (Spanned) textLinkTest.getText(),
            URLSpan.class,
            new URLSpanConverter()));

The links show up fine, but they are not clickable! The onclick in my customeclickablespan never gets called. I tried toggling android:linksClickable & also tried different values for android:autoLink. But the links remain unclickable. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Add

textLinkTest.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

before

textLinkTest.setText(RichTextUtils.replaceAll((Spanned) textLinkTest.getText(), URLSpan.class, new URLSpanConverter()));