TextView to send email when clicked

Question

I have a TextView with android:autoLink="email".

If I put my email address in there then a link appears that I can click.

How do I have different text appear (for example 'Send Feedback') instead of the email address but still behave the same when clicked?

Thanks

Answer 1

To achieve what I wanted required a different approach:

TextView feedback = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.TextViewSendFeedback); feedback.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Send Feedback</a>")); feedback.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()); 

This basically places HTML in the TextView so I get a link saying 'Send Feedback' but clicking it opens the default email application.

Word of warning: Trying this in the emulator didn't initially work for me, saying it was unsupported. This was just because I didn't have an email account setup. Setting one up in the emulator made the link work as I wanted.

Answer 2

You can use both links and email if you set the following param in the TextView

android:autoLink="web|email" 

the links will be opened in the browser and the mails will be sent by the default mail client