Multiple Clickable links in TextView on Android

Question

I'm trying to add multiple links in a textview similar to what Google & Flipboard has done below with their Terms and conditions AND Privacy Policy shown in the screen shot below:

So far I've stumbled on using this approach

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(myHtml); textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

where myHtml is a href.

But it doesn't give me control I need e.g to launch a fragment etc.

Any idea how they achieve this in the two examples below?

Answer 1

I think that I'm a little late to share this, but I have achieved the same using SpannableStringBuilder.

Simply initialize the TextView that you want to add 2 or more listeners and then pass that to the following method that I have created:

private void customTextView(TextView view) {         SpannableStringBuilder spanTxt = new SpannableStringBuilder(                 "I agree to the ");         spanTxt.append("Term of services");         spanTxt.setSpan(new ClickableSpan() {             @Override             public void onClick(View widget) {                 Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Terms of services Clicked",                         Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();             }         }, spanTxt.length() - "Term of services".length(), spanTxt.length(), 0);         spanTxt.append(" and");         spanTxt.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.BLACK), 32, spanTxt.length(), 0);         spanTxt.append(" Privacy Policy");         spanTxt.setSpan(new ClickableSpan() {             @Override             public void onClick(View widget) {                 Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Privacy Policy Clicked",                         Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();             }         }, spanTxt.length() - " Privacy Policy".length(), spanTxt.length(), 0);         view.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());         view.setText(spanTxt, BufferType.SPANNABLE);     }  

And in your XML, use android:textColorLink to add custom link color of your choice. Like this:

   <TextView      android:id="@+id/textView1"      android:layout_width="wrap_content"      android:layout_height="wrap_content"      android:text="TextView"      android:textColorLink="#C36241" />  //#C36241 - Rust 

And this looks like this:

Hope it helps someone. :)

Answer 2

You can use Linkify (android.text.Spannable,java.util.regex.Pattern,java.lang.String)

String termsAndConditions = getResources().getString(R.string.terms_and_conditions); String privacyPolicy = getResources().getString(R.string.privacy_policy);  legalDescription.setText(     String.format(         getResources().getString(R.string.message),         termsAndConditions,         privacyPolicy) ); legalDescription.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());  Pattern termsAndConditionsMatcher = Pattern.compile(termsAndConditions); Linkify.addLinks(legalDescription, termsAndConditionsMatcher, "terms:");  Pattern privacyPolicyMatcher = Pattern.compile(privacyPolicy); Linkify.addLinks(legalDescription, privacyPolicyMatcher, "privacy:"); 

and then you can use the scheme to start an activity for example by adding the scheme in the AndroidManifest:

<intent-filter>     <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />     <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />     <data android:scheme="terms" />     <data android:scheme="privacy" /> </intent-filter> 

If you want to do a custom action, you can set the intent-filter to your current activity, which will have a singleTop launchmode.

This will cause onNewIntent to be fired where can make your custom actions:

@Override protected void onNewIntent(final Intent intent) {  ...   if (intent.getScheme().equals(..)) {     ..   } }