Create a working link in TextView, which points to the html file from assets

Question

I have a TextView with HTML text which contains two hyperlinks:

<string name="agreement"><![CDATA[By signing up I agree to <a href="file:///android_asset/terms.html">Terms of Use</a>, Payment terms and <a href="http://www.google.com">Legal Policy</a>]]></string>

Both links are clickable, but the first one fails to be opened by any viewer on my Nexus 5. Some application appears for a second, then it shuts down and a toast is saying "Cannot display PDF (terms.html cannot be opened)"

How can I make the local hyperlink open HTML file in browser?

Where is your terms.html placed in the project? Directly in the src\main\assets folder? — babadaba, Jul 22 '16 at 12:22

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 22 '16 at 12:25

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Actually you can simply use webview

answered Jul 22 '16 at 12:25

Dharvik shah

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sure I can, but then I have to handle link clicks myself and split the TextView into clickable and not clickable ones. – Andrew Jul 22 '16 at 12:55
okay here is one another solution that might help you : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2116162/how-to-display-html-in-textview – Dharvik shah Jul 22 '16 at 13:04

Create a working link in TextView, which points to the html file from assets

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