TextView underline phone number and hyperlink

Question

I've written an app which contains a large textview for displaying notes. Is it possible to have the textview highlight any phone numbers or hyperlinks without underlining the entire view?

score 61 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 11 '10 at 23:35

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<TextView 
   ...
   android:autoLink="all"
/>

That's actually enough for you

answered Jun 11 '10 at 23:35

Fedor

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Yeah, I keep forgetting about this. `Linkify` is good if you need more control, or only want to apply a conversion to part of the text. – CommonsWare Jun 14 '10 at 20:25
Thanks. I got what I was searching for. – Kiran Kulkarni Oct 19 '11 at 01:42
I'm prompted to add the number to my contacts rather than dialing. I'm using an Android 4.3 Emulator. Is that the expected behavior vs. opening the dialer? – Bill Mote Nov 08 '13 at 14:12
@BillMote late reply, but maybe someone would need it. It happens, because emulator doesn't have dealer app. – rstk Sep 25 '15 at 02:02
Is there a way to control the color of the links? – Justin Nov 03 '16 at 16:03
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Never mind, I found it... android:textColorLink="yourcolorhere" – Justin Nov 03 '16 at 16:06

score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 11 '10 at 22:41

You can use Linkify to turn phone numbers, URLs, and such into links that, when clicked on, launch appropriate apps (Dialer, Browser, etc.).

If you were fishing for just an underline effect, without the links, you can:

Mark up your text with HTML, particularly <u>...</u> for underlines
Run that through Html.fromHtml() to get a Spannable with your formatting in place
Feed that Spannable to your TextView via setText()

Here is the list of HTML tags supported by Android 2.1's edition of Html.fromHtml(). Note that this is not officially documented anywhere, so your mileage may vary.

TextView underline phone number and hyperlink

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