Linkify in android TextView

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I have a text view with text" This is a product developed by XYZ. For more queries, mail us at info@abc.com. And I have linkified "info@abc.com". But the problem is, whenever I touch any area below the textview, it gets linked to the email. How Do I make sure, the link has to happen only on clicking info@....I used patterns, Linkify.EMAIL_ADDRESS..nothing seem to work...kindly suggest some answers

**[Custom Link Patterns Using Regular Expression](http://www.indelible.org/ink/android-linkify/) might be helpful** — Vikas Patidar, Feb 18 '11 at 14:11

score 19 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 18 '11 at 16:47

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I had problems with automatic links, so I turned it off and instead I am using html formating of the text plus this code:

TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.TextBox);
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(strText));

An email link goes <a href="mailto:my@email.com">my@email.com</a>

answered Feb 18 '11 at 16:47

Lumis

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Works, but the text is rendered with an underline. How to remove it? – Shane Oliver Mar 24 '11 at 11:36
Here is one way to do it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4096851/remove-underline-from-links-in-textview-android – Lumis Mar 24 '11 at 14:17
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Took me an hour to figure it out, but it CRITICAL to call setMovementMethod BEFORE setText on the TextView. Good example. – Issa Fram Apr 26 '12 at 04:51
All my "problems" with html text , spannables and weird weird link recognition where gone when simply removing all linkify methods and just setMovementMethod() ( with clickable , etc) – CaptainCrunch Mar 30 '23 at 20:13

score 17 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 04 '21 at 02:49

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 android:autoLink="web"

edited Nov 04 '21 at 02:49

Nimantha

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answered Apr 08 '12 at 11:15

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This only works for links that are the url themself. With this you cannot f.e. link the word `Google` to `google.com`. – Steven Roose Sep 14 '12 at 23:12

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 05 '15 at 01:17

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Method using Linkify Class:

myTextView.setAutoLinkMask(Linkify.EMAIL_ADDRESSES);
myTextView.setLinksClickable(true);

answered Nov 05 '15 at 01:17

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 18 '11 at 14:30

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Try using HTML formatting i.e. anchor tag for the link.

answered Feb 18 '11 at 14:30

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Linkify in android TextView

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