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If a page has a URL or a phone number on it that isn't a link is there any way to have WebView recognize it and automatically turn it into a link like you can with TextViews?
With a TextView you would simply set the android:autoLink to the desired settings:
<TextView
android:autoLink="web|phone"
... />
but I can't find any equivalent for WebView.
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If you are loading your own (web) content from a String, then you can do something like this:
final String content = "My email is: [email protected] ...";
Spannable sp = new SpannableString(content);
Linkify.addLinks(sp, Linkify.ALL);
final String html = "<body>" + Html.toHtml(sp) + "</body>";
myWebView.loadData(html, "text/html", "utf-8");
I don't know about any way which would make this work just by changing a setting, but a workaround would be to wait until the web page finishes loading and then do:
yourWebView.loadUrl("javascript:(function(){ /* code that creates links */ })()");
This will inject javaScript into the already loaded web page. There's a slightly longer example available here: http://lexandera.com/2009/01/injecting-javascript-into-a-webview/.
You can find the JavaScript source for creating links if you take a look at the source of Linkify script for Greasemonkey (it's a plugin for Firefox in case you're not familiar with it). I believe it comes with the default install.
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