Android: Linkify TextView

android linkify
Faheem Kalsekar picture Faheem Kalsekar · Jan 20, 2011 · Viewed 34.5k times · Source

I have textview which I need to linkify. Here's what I am doing..

TextView text = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.name);
text.setText("Android...Update from Android");
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("Android");
String scheme = "www.android.com";
Linkify.addLinks(text, pattern, scheme);

The text-view is displayed correctly with the text "Android...Update from Android", but I am facing two problems.

1) My text string has two instances of the string "Android". So, both the text are linkified. I want only the first occurrence to be linkified. How should I go about it?

2) When I click the linkfy text, it opens the browser, but the URL is weird. The url it tries to open is "www.comandroid". I don't know whats going wrong here. The text "android" in the URL is being replaced. Am I doing something wrong when Linknifying the text.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Answer

Fernando JS picture Fernando JS · Nov 19, 2012

The easy way is put autoLink in XML layout.

  android:autoLink="web"

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