androidtextviewautolink

Autolink inside a TextView in android

How to give autolink for some part of textview ? For example : My text inside TextView is "Please click here to open this webpage". I want to show link for only the text "here". And I should open that webpage onclick of the text "here" but not on the anywhere of TextView.

Solution

  • Put a String in string.xml

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="txtCredits">Support: <a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com">click here</a></string>
</resources>

    And you can use it in textView like this:

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:id="@+id/text"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:linksClickable="true"
        android:text="@string/txtCredits" />

    EDIT

    For some reason above code does not work properly. So, add below code also,

    TextView t2 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text);
t2.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

    Important: Don't forget to remove autoLink="web" if you are calling setMovementMethod().