Android -- autoLink

Question

Is there any way to Linkify a specific TextView that is contained within a ListView? I tried using android:autoLink="all" but that didn't work. I was getting an out of context error.

Important also to note: the ListView is my second view in the ViewFlipper.

I have also tried:

            View mItemView = mAdapter.getView(2, null, null);
        TextView infoText = (TextView) mItemView.findViewById(R.id.rowText2);
        Linkify.addLinks(infoText, Linkify.ALL);

Right after the adapter was bound to the ListView and the View was switched. No luck.

Here is the stack trace:

06-03 21:19:25.180: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214): android.util.AndroidRuntimeException: Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity  context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag. Is this really what you want?
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at android.app.ApplicationContext.startActivity(ApplicationContext.java:550)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at android.content.ContextWrapper.startActivity(ContextWrapper.java:248)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at android.text.style.URLSpan.onClick(URLSpan.java:62)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at android.text.method.LinkMovementMethod.onTouchEvent(LinkMovementMethod.java:216)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at android.widget.TextView.onTouchEvent(TextView.java:6560)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at android.view.View.dispatchTouchEvent(View.java:3709)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:884)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:884)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:884)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:884)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:884)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:884)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:884)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.superDispatchTouchEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1659)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.superDispatchTouchEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1107)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at android.app.Activity.dispatchTouchEvent(Activity.java:2061)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.dispatchTouchEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1643)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1691)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4363)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:860)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:618)
06-03 21:19:25.219: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1214):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance!!!

Answer 1

This worked for me: http://www.anddev.org/view-layout-resource-problems-f27/linkify-problem-t14779.html

Basically, don't use getApplicationContext() when you don't mean it (stealing from the link)

GOOD (linkify works)

CustomAdapter mAdapter = new CustomAdapter(this, itemList);

BAD (linkify fails at run with: Calling startActivity() from outside...)

Context mContext = getApplicationContext();
CustomAdapter mAdapter = new CustomAdapter(mContext, itemList);