How to click or tap on a TextView text

Question

I know this is so easy (doh...) but I am looking for a way to run a method on tapping or clicking a TextView line of text in an Android App.

I keep thinking about button listeners and anonymous method listener calls, but it just does not seem to apply to TextView.

Can someone point me at some code snippet to show how clicking or tapping on a piece of text in a TextView runs a method?

Answer 1

You can set the click handler in xml with these attribute:

android:onClick="onClick"
android:clickable="true"

Don't forget the clickable attribute, without it, the click handler isn't called.

main.xml

    ...

    <TextView 
       android:id="@+id/click"
       android:layout_width="wrap_content"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"               
       android:text="Click Me"
       android:textSize="55sp"
       android:onClick="onClick"                
       android:clickable="true"/>
    ...

MyActivity.java

       public class MyActivity extends Activity {

          public void onClick(View v) {
            ...
          }  
       }