[android help] Does Linkify work for TextView in Android?

Have clickable span and set the text with the clikable span. You can have custom color for the clickabke span. When you click on the text in textview it displays a toast.

String title="hello";
SpannableString ss1=  new SpannableString(title);
    ss1.setSpan(new MyClickableSpan(title), 0, ss1.length(), 0); 
    tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textview);
    tv.setText(ss1);
    tv.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());  

MyClickableSpan

   class MyClickableSpan extends ClickableSpan{     
   String clicked;
   public MyClickableSpan(String string)  
   {
    super();
    clicked =string;
   }
   public void onClick(View tv) 
   {
     // onclick of text in textview do something 
 Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this,clicked ,Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
     //display a toast 
   }
   public void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds)
   {
     ds.setColor(Color.BLUE);//set text color 
     ds.setUnderlineText(true); // set to false to remove underline
   }
  } 

Resulting Snap Shot

EDIT:

Open a browser with the url on click on text in textview. You can also pass the url to a activity. Retrieve the url and load the url in webview.

 

public void onClick(View tv) {
//do something

   Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this,clicked ,
        Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
   String url = "http://www.example.com";
   Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
   i.setData(Uri.parse(url));
   startActivity(i);
}


                OR

In onClick()

   Intent t= new Intent(MainActivity.this,SecondActivity.class);
   t.putExtra("key","http://www.google.com");
   startActivity(t);

second.xml

   
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
   android:layout_height="match_parent"
   android:orientation="vertical" >

    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent"
  android:id="@+id/wv">
  

Then in SecondActivty

public class SecondActivity extends Activity{

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.second);
    WebView wv= (WebView) findViewById(R.id.wv);
    Bundle extras= getIntent().getExtras();
    if(extras!=null)
    {
        wv.loadUrl(extras.getString("key"));
    }   
} 
 }

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