How to create TextView that will act as a link

Question

I have a Textview with location:

eg. "Mountain View, CA"

What I want to achieve is to create this text to act like a Link - color,underline, focusability etc.

This link doesn't need to direct anywhere - surrounding view has attached onClick listener that fires google maps intent.

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 29 '10 at 13:35

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Something like this should work.

  TextView location = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.location);
  location.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
  Spannable spans = (Spannable) location.getText();
  ClickableSpan clickSpan = new ClickableSpan() {

     @Override
     public void onClick(View widget)
     {
        //put whatever you like here, below is an example
        AlertDialog.Builder builder = new Builder(MainActivity.this);
        builder.setTitle("Location clicked");
        AlertDialog dialog = builder.create();            
        dialog.show();
     }
  };
  spans.setSpan(clickSpan, 0, spans.length(), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

answered Sep 29 '10 at 13:35

ageektrapped

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Your answer is working fine. But it shows whole text as link. how to make only link part should be clickable and not whole text. – Shreyash Mahajan Aug 07 '16 at 10:47
@iDroidExplorer On the last line, change 0, spans.length() to be the range of the string that you want clickable. – ageektrapped Aug 14 '16 at 19:27
Nice. Thanks a lot. – Shreyash Mahajan Aug 17 '16 at 05:32

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 05 '11 at 12:01

there is a example in ApiDemos which can solve your problem. Check out com.example.android.apis.text.Link class, it may help. Following is part of the code:

TextView t3 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text3);
t3.setText(
        Html.fromHtml(
            "<b>text3:</b>  Text with a " +
            "<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">link</a> " +
            "created in the Java source code using HTML."));
t3.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 26 '13 at 07:44

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tv.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

if you are not getting click callback

answered Jun 26 '13 at 07:44

diesel

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 27 '14 at 14:50

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you can use Spannable class with mTextView.scollTo() to create internal link

answered Dec 27 '14 at 14:50

How to create TextView that will act as a link

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