androidandroid-alertdialogmaterial-componentsspannablestringbuilderclickablespan

How to make ClickableSpan links in MaterialAlertDialogBuilder clickable?

I have a SpannableStringBuilder object with a ClickableSpan link like this,

SpannableStringBuilder ssb = new SpannableStringBuilder("Hi StackOverflow!");

ClickableSpan clickableSpan = new ClickableSpan() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(@NonNull View widget) {
        Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Clicked", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
};

ssb.setSpan(clickableSpan, 3, 16, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

This works fine when I set it to a TextView and after using textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance())

When I set the ssb object to the MaterialAlertDialogBuilder, 

new MaterialAlertDialogBuilder(this)
                .setTitle("My Dialog")
                .setMessage(ssb)
                .show();

It displays as a clickable link but cannot actually click it MaterialAlertDialogBuilder preview I couldn't find a way to use setMovementMethod for the message in MaterialAlertDialogBuilder. Is there any way to make it clickable?

Solution

  • Here is code snippet to make your spannable content clickable, give it a try.

    SpannableString s = new SpannableString(msg); // Here msg should have url to enable clicking
Linkify.addLinks(s, Linkify.ALL);

    After that put your alertdialog code here

    //Alert dialog code

    Then get id of textview of your MaterialAlertDialog, below line of code must be called after dialog.show() like this,

    ((TextView)dialog.findViewById(android.R.id.message))
.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());