Make a hyperlink textview in android

android url hyperlink textview
Srinivas picture Srinivas · Feb 15, 2012 · Viewed 104.4k times · Source

I want to make a link for a textview text like Google. Is there anyway to make link like this. (i.e) When clicking on the word Google it should open the appropriate link. Any ideas are welcome.

Answer

user370305 picture user370305 · Feb 15, 2012

Try this, and let me know what happen..

Using java code:

TextView textView =(TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView);
textView.setClickable(true);
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
String text = "<a href='http://www.google.com'> Google </a>";
textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(text));

From API level >= 24 onwards Html.fromHtml(String source) is deprecated instead use fromHtml(String, int),

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(text, Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_COMPACT));

Or in layout xml file, inside your TextView widget attributes

android:autoLink="web"
android:linksClickable="true"

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