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I've spent over an hour looking at plenty of examples and none of it actually works for setting text in a TextView to link to a web URL.
Example code!
text8 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView4);
text8.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
Strings.xml
<string name="urltext"><a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a></string>
main.xml
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView4"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:autoLink="web"
android:linksClickable="true"
android:text="@string/urltext"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
Currently this code display the text as "Google" however its not hyperlinked and nothing happens upon clicking.
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I solved my problem simply by the following code.
Kept HTML-like string:
<string name="urltext"><a href="https://www.google.com/">Google</a></string>
Made layout with NO link-specific configuration at all:
<TextView
android:id="@+id/link"
android:text="@string/urltext" />`
Added the MovementMethod to the TextView:
mLink = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.link);
if (mLink != null) {
mLink.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
}
Now it allows me to click the hyperlinked text "Google" and now opens web browser.
This code was from vizZ answer at the following linked Question
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TextView text=(TextView) findViewById(R.id.text);
String value = "<html> click to go <font color=#757b86><b><a href=\"http://www.google.com\">google</a></b></font> </html>";
Spannable spannedText = (Spannable)
Html.fromHtml(value);
text.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
Spannable processedText = removeUnderlines(spannedText);
text.setText(processedText);
here is your removeUnderlines()
public static Spannable removeUnderlines(Spannable p_Text) {
URLSpan[] spans = p_Text.getSpans(0, p_Text.length(), URLSpan.class);
for (URLSpan span : spans) {
int start = p_Text.getSpanStart(span);
int end = p_Text.getSpanEnd(span);
p_Text.removeSpan(span);
span = new URLSpanNoUnderline(span.getURL());
p_Text.setSpan(span, start, end, 0);
}
return p_Text;
}
also create class URLSpanNoUnderline.java
import co.questapp.quest.R;
import android.text.TextPaint;
import android.text.style.URLSpan;
public class URLSpanNoUnderline extends URLSpan {
public URLSpanNoUnderline(String p_Url) {
super(p_Url);
}
public void updateDrawState(TextPaint p_DrawState) {
super.updateDrawState(p_DrawState);
p_DrawState.setUnderlineText(false);
p_DrawState.setColor(R.color.info_text_color);
}
}
using this line you can also change the color of that text p_DrawState.setColor(R.color.info_text_color);
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