How can we open TextView's links into Webview

Question

How can I open TextView's links into WebView when I click on links of TextView.

Answer 1

Spanned spanned = Html.fromHtml("<a href=\"http://google.com\">google.com</a>");
textView.setText(spanned);

EDIT: That's not an ideal way to handle clicks on a link, but I don't know any other way.

Your main activity contains a TextView with a link. The link URL has a custom scheme.

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        TextView link = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.link);
        link.setText(
            Html.fromHtml("<a href='myscheme://www.google.com'>link</a>"));
        link.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
    }
}

When this link is clicked Android starts an Activity with ACTION_VIEW using the link URL. Let's assume you have a WebViewActivity which handles URIs with this custom scheme. It gets the passed URI and replaces its scheme with http.

public class WebViewActivity extends Activity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate( savedInstanceState );

        if( savedInstanceState == null ) {
            String url =
                getIntent().getDataString().replace("myscheme://", "http://");
            // do something with this URL.
        }
    }
}

To handle custom URI schemes WebViewActivity must have an intent filter in the AndroidManifest.xml file:

<activity android:name=".WebViewActivity" android:exported="false">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        <data android:scheme="myscheme" />
    </intent-filter>
</activity>

Answer 2

If you copy a Kotlin solution of nastylion, you can use it like:

textView.handleUrlClicks { url ->
    Timber.d("click on found span: $url")
    // Call WebView here.
}

Also you can see an article with its LinkMovementMethod and linkify, but it's too difficult (contains different masks and popup menus).