Android: textview hyperlink

Question

I know that if you put a link in a textview it will work but if I want to display for example:

google stackoverflow

and not the whole link(just the tag) How do i make those links clickable?

Answer 1

You could have two separate TextViews and you could align them accordingly in your layout if needed:

    Text1.setText(
        Html.fromHtml(
            "<a href="http://www.google.com">google</a> "));
    Text1.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

    Text2.setText(
            Html.fromHtml(
                "<a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com">stackoverflow</a> "));
    Text2.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

Then if you want to strip the "link underline". Create a class:

public class URLSpanNoUnderline extends URLSpan {
    public URLSpanNoUnderline(String url) {
        super(url);
    }
    @Override public void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds) {
        super.updateDrawState(ds);
        ds.setUnderlineText(false);
        }
}

Then add this method in your main Activity class where you have the TextViews

private void stripUnderlines(TextView textView) {
    Spannable s = new SpannableString(textView.getText());
    URLSpan[] spans = s.getSpans(0, s.length(), URLSpan.class);
    for (URLSpan span: spans) {
        int start = s.getSpanStart(span);
        int end = s.getSpanEnd(span);
        s.removeSpan(span);
        span = new URLSpanNoUnderline(span.getURL());
        s.setSpan(span, start, end, 0);
    }
    textView.setText(s);
}

And then just call this after you initialised the TextViews (in your onCreate):

stripUnderlines(Text1);
stripUnderlines(Text2);