How to make links in a TextView clickable

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I have the following TextView defined     lt TextView android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content  android text   string txtCredits      android autoLink  web  android id    id infoTxtCredits      android layout centerInParent  true      android linksClickable  true  gt  lt  TextView gt    where  string txtCredits is a string resource that contains  lt a href  some site  gt Link text lt  a gt    Android is highlighting the links in the TextView  but they do not respond to clicks   Can someone tell me what I m doing wrong   Do I have to set an onClickListener for the TextView in my activity for something as simple as this   Looks like it has to do with the way I define my string resource  This does not work    lt string name  txtCredits  gt  lt a href  http   www google com  gt Google lt  a gt  lt  string gt    But this does    lt string name  txtCredits  gt www google com lt  string gt    Which is a bummer because I would much rather show a text link than show the full URL

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Be sure to not use setAutoLinkMask Linkify ALL  when using setMovementMethod LinkMovementMethod getInstance    and Html fromHTML   on properly formatted HTML links  for example   lt a href  http   www google com   gt Google lt  a gt

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Here is very one line android code to make phone and url selectable from textView no matter what is string and what is data  You dont need to use any HTML tags for this   TextView textView    TextView findViewById R id textView1   textView setText  some url is www google com phone 7504567890 another url lkgndflg com         Makes the textView s Phone and URL  hyperlink  select and go  Linkify addLinks textView  Linkify WEB URLS   Linkify PHONE NUMBERS

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After spending some time with this  I have found that    android autoLink  web  works if you have full links in your HTML  The following will be highlighted in blue and clickable          Some text  lt a href  http   www google com  gt http   www google com lt  a gt    Some text http   www google com       view setMovementMethod LinkMovementMethod getInstance     will work with the following  will be highlighted and clickable           Some text  lt a href  http   www google com  gt http   www google com lt  a gt    Some text http   www google com   Some text  lt a href  http   www google com  gt Go to Google lt  a gt       Note that the third option has a hyperlink  but the description of the link  the part between the  tags  itself is not a link  android autoLink  web  does NOT work with such links    android autoLink  web  if set in XML will override view setMovementMethod LinkMovementMethod getInstance      i e   links of the third kind will be highlighted  but not clickable     The moral of the story is use view setMovementMethod LinkMovementMethod getInstance     in your code and make sure you don t have android autoLink  web  in your XML layout if you want all links to be clickable

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This question is very old but none answered the obvious one  This code is taken from one of my hobby projects  package com stackoverflow java android   import android content Context  import android text method LinkMovementMethod  import android text method MovementMethod  import android util AttributeSet   import androidx annotation Nullable  import androidx appcompat widget AppCompatTextView   public class HyperlinkTextView extends AppCompatTextView       public HyperlinkTextView Context context            super context              public HyperlinkTextView Context context   Nullable AttributeSet attrs            super context  attrs              public HyperlinkTextView Context context   Nullable AttributeSet attrs  int defStyleAttr            super context  attrs  defStyleAttr                         Set default movement method to   link LinkMovementMethod          return Link movement method as the default movement method              Override     protected MovementMethod getDefaultMovementMethod             return LinkMovementMethod getInstance             Now  simply using com stackoverflow java android HyperlinkTextView instead of TextView in your layout files will solve your problem

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The reason you re having the problem is that it only tries to match  naked  addresses  things like  www google com  or  http   www google com    Running your text through Html fromHtml   should do the trick  You have to do it programatically  but it works

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Don t know if it s worth adding another answer  but just in case     I had to hunt this down in a couple places but finally got this version of the code to work   strings xml    lt string name  name1  gt  amp lt a href  http   www google com  gt link text1 amp lt  a gt  lt  string gt   lt string name  name2  gt  amp lt a href  http   www google com  gt link text2 amp lt  a gt  lt  string gt    myactivity xml    lt TextView      android id    id textview1      android layout height  wrap content      android layout width  wrap content      android layout marginTop  5dp    gt    lt TextView      android id    id textview2      android layout height  wrap content      android layout width  wrap content      android layout marginTop  5dp    gt    myactivty java  in onCreate      TextView tv1    TextView findViewById R id textview1   TextView tv2    TextView findViewById R id textview2    tv1 setText Html fromHtml getResources   getString R string name1     tv2 setText Html fromHtml getResources   getString R string name2     tv1 setMovementMethod LinkMovementMethod getInstance     tv2 setMovementMethod LinkMovementMethod getInstance       This will create two clickable hyperlinks with the text link text1 and link text2 which redirect the user to google

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Tested in Pre-lollipop as well as in Lollipop and above   You can get your HTML string from the backend or from your resources files  If you put your text as an resource string  make sure to add the CDATA tag    lt string name  your text  gt   CDATA     lt a href  your link  gt Link Title lt  a gt         lt  string gt    Then in code you need to get the string and assign it as HTML and set a link movement method   String yourText   getString R string your text    if  Build VERSION SDK INT  gt   Build VERSION CODES N       textView setText Html fromHtml yourText  Html FROM HTML MODE COMPACT      else      textView setText Html fromHtml yourText       try      subtext setMovementMethod LinkMovementMethod getInstance       catch  Exception e         This code seems to crash in some Samsung devices       You can handle this edge case base on your needs

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Buried in the API demos I found the solution to my problem   Link java          text2 has links specified by putting  lt a gt  tags in the string        resource   By default these links will appear but not        respond to user input   To make them active  you need to        call setMovementMethod   on the TextView object       TextView t2    TextView  findViewById R id text2       t2 setMovementMethod LinkMovementMethod getInstance       I removed most of the attributes on my TextView to match what was in the demo    lt TextView     android id    id text2      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android text   string txtCredits   gt    That solved it  Pretty difficult to uncover and fix   Important  Don t forget to remove autoLink  web  if you are calling setMovementMethod

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Just wasted so much time to figure out you have to use getText R string whatever  instead of getString R string whatever      Anyways  here is how I got mine working  With multiple hyperlinks in the same text view too        TextView termsTextView    TextView  getActivity   findViewById R id termsTextView       termsTextView append  By registering your account  you agree to our         termsTextView append getText R string terms of service        termsTextView append            termsTextView append getText R string fees        termsTextView append    and the         termsTextView append getText R string stripe connected account agreement         termsTextView setMovementMethod LinkMovementMethod getInstance                     lt TextView                 android layout width  match parent                  android layout height  wrap content                  android id    id termsTextView   gt    string example       lt string name  stripe connected account agreement  gt  lt a href  https   stripe com connect account-terms  gt Stripe Connected Account Agreement lt  a gt  lt  string gt

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Add CDATA to your string resource  Strings xml   lt string name  txtCredits  gt  lt   CDATA  lt a href   http   www google com   gt Google lt  a gt    gt  lt  string gt

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i used this simply  Linkify addLinks TextView  Linkify ALL     makes the links clickable given here

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If you want to add HTML-like link  all you need to do is    add a resource HTML-like string      lt string name  link  gt  lt a href  https   www google pl   gt Google lt  a gt  lt  string gt   add your view to the layout with NO link-specific configuration at all     lt TextView     android id    id link      android text   string link    gt    add appropriate MovementMethod programmatically to your TextView    mLink    TextView  findViewById R id link    if  mLink    null       mLink setMovementMethod LinkMovementMethod getInstance           That s it  And yes  having options like  autoLink  and  linksClickable  working on explicit links only  not wrapped into html tags  is very misleading to me too

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My code was like this      lt TextView     android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  fill parent      android id    id link      android text   string forgot      android layout marginTop  16dp      android gravity  center      android linksClickable  true   gt    My Java code was like this       TextView action           TextView textView    TextView  findViewById R id link           textView setMovementMethod LinkMovementMethod getInstance             textView setOnClickListener new OnClickListener                  Override             public void onClick View v                    startActivity new Intent LoginActivity this forgot class                                  This just points the link to another activity  But that link is clickable and works smoothly  Tested in Android Studio 1 5  Preview

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For those who are having issues with strings reading from xml and assigning dynamically  In case you are using text from strings xml resource  it seems that the html tags gets stripped out  So you have to use  lt   CDATA   your string with click links     gt  in the strings xml to convert it to html using Html fromHtml string

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Manage Linkify text Color Also    tv customer care no setLinkTextColor getResources   getColor R color blue      tv customer care no setText  For us to reach out to you  please fill the details below or contact our customer care at  18004190899 or visit our website http   www dupont co in corporate-links contact-dupont html        Linkify addLinks tv customer care no  Linkify WEB URLS   Linkify PHONE NUMBERS      Linkify addLinks tv customer care no  Linkify ALL

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The above solutions didn t work for me  but the following did  and it seems a bit cleaner   First  in the string resource  define your tag opening chevrons using the HTML entity encoding  i e     amp lt a href  http   www google com  gt Google amp lt  a gt    and NOT    lt a href  http   www google com  gt Google lt  a gt    In general  encode all the chevrons in the string like that  BTW  the link must start with http     Then  as suggested here  set this option on your TextView    android linksClickable  true    Finally  in code  do     TextView  findViewById R id your text view   setMovementMethod LinkMovementMethod getInstance       TextView  findViewById R id your text view   setText Html fromHtml getResources   getString R string string with links       That s it  no regexes or other manual hacks required

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Only what do you need to add this in text view in xml   lt TextView     android layout width  match parent      android layout height  wrap content      android autoLink  web   gt

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This is how I solved clickable and Visible links in a TextView  by code     private void setAsLink TextView view  String url           Pattern pattern   Pattern compile url           Linkify addLinks view  pattern   http               view setText Html fromHtml   lt a href  http     url    gt http     url   lt  a gt

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Use below code   String html     lt a href   http   yourdomain com   gt Your Domain Name lt  a gt   TextView textview    TextView  findViewById R id your textview id   textview setMovementMethod LinkMovementMethod getInstance     textview setText Html fromHtml html

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I noticed that using android autoLink  web  thus   lt TextView     android layout width  match parent      android layout height  wrap content       android autoLink  web   gt    worked OK for URLs but since I had an e-mail address and phone number that I wanted to link as well  I ended up using this line android autoLink  all  like this    lt TextView         android layout width  match parent          android layout height  wrap content           android autoLink  all   gt    and it worked like a charm

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I use the autolink to  auto underline  the text  but just made an  onClick  that manages it   I ran into this problem myself            lt TextView             android layout width  wrap content              android layout height  wrap content              android layout marginRight  10dp              android textSize  18dp              android autoLink  all              android text   string twitter              android onClick  twitter   gt   public void twitter  View view                try                       Intent browserIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  Uri parse  http   twitter com onaclovtech                 startActivity browserIntent                      finally                             Doesn t require any permissions  as you are passing the intent off to apps that manage those resources   I E  browser    This was what worked for me  Good luck

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Use this     TextView setOnClickListener new OnClickListener                           Override                     public void onClick View v                               TODO Auto-generated method stub                         Intent in new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW Uri parse  http   www twitter com                              startActivity in                                                and add permission in manifest file   lt uses-permission android name  android permission INTERNET   gt

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The accepted answer is correct  BUT it will mean that phone numbers  maps  email addresses  and regular links e g  http   google com without href tags will NO LONGER be clickable since you can t have autolink in the xml   The only complete solution to have EVERYTHING clickable that I have found is the following   Spanned text   Html fromHtml myString   URLSpan   currentSpans   text getSpans 0  text length    URLSpan class   SpannableString buffer   new SpannableString text   Linkify addLinks buffer  Linkify ALL   for  URLSpan span   currentSpans        int end   text getSpanEnd span       int start   text getSpanStart span       buffer setSpan span  start  end  0     textView setText buffer   textView setMovementMethod LinkMovementMethod getInstance       And the TextView should NOT have android autolink  There s no need for android linksClickable  true  either  it s true by default

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The easiest thing that worked for me is to use Linkify  TextView txt Message    TextView  view findViewById R id txt message   txt Message setText  This is link https   www google co in     Linkify addLinks txt Message  Linkify WEB URLS     and it will automatically detect the web urls from the text in the textview

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I m using only android autoLink  web  and it works fine  A click on the link opens the browser and shows the correct page    One thing I could guess is that some other view is above the link  Something that is transparent fills the whole parent but don t displays anything above the link  In this case the click goes to this view instead of the link

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If using XML based TextView  for your requirement you need to do just two things    Identify your link in the string  such as  this is my WebPage   You can add it in xml or in the code  In the xml that has the TextView  add these      android linksClickable  true   android autoLink  web

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Create an extension method on SpannableString   private fun SpannableString setLinkSpan text  String  url  String        val textIndex   this indexOf text      setSpan          object   ClickableSpan                 override fun onClick widget  View                    Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  apply   data   Uri parse url    also   startActivity it                                     textIndex          textIndex   text length          Spanned SPAN EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE           Use it to make string in your TextView clickable       myTextView apply           movementMethod   LinkMovementMethod getInstance            val googleUrl    http   www google com          val microsoftUrl    http   www microsoft com           val google    Google          val microsoft    Microsoft           val message   SpannableString   google  amp   microsoft   apply               setLinkSpan google  googleUrl              setLinkSpan microsoft  microsoftUrl                     text   message         Enjoy

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by using linkify  Linkify take a piece of text and a regular expression and turns all of the regex matches in the text into clickable links  TextView textView    TextView  findViewById R id textView   textView setText  http   www domain com    Linkify addLinks textView  Linkify WEB URLS     Don t forget to   import android widget TextView

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Autolink phone does not worked for me  The following worked like a charm   TextView tv    TextView  findViewById R id emergencynos   String html2   lt br gt  lt br gt Fire -  lt b gt  lt a href tel 997 gt 997 lt  a gt   lt  b gt  lt  br gt  lt  br gt            tv append Html fromHtml html2    tv setMovementMethod LinkMovementMethod getInstance

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You need only this   android autoLink  web    Insert this line to TextView  that can be clickable with reference to the web  URL address set as a text of this TextView   Example     lt TextView     android id    id textViewWikiURL      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android textSize  20sp      android textStyle  bold      android text  http   www wikipedia org       android autoLink  web    gt

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As the databinding is out I d like to share my solution for databinding TextViews supporting html tags with clickable links   To avoid retrieving every textview and giving them html support using From html we extend the TextView and put the logic in setText    public class HtmlTextView extends TextView        public HtmlTextView Context context            super context              public HtmlTextView Context context  AttributeSet attrs            super context  attrs              public HtmlTextView Context context  AttributeSet attrs  int defStyleAttr            super context  attrs  defStyleAttr               Override     public void setText CharSequence text  BufferType type            super setText Html fromHtml text toString     type           this setMovementMethod LinkMovementMethod getInstance               I ve made a gist which also shows example entity and view for using this

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The following should work for anyone who is looking for a combination of text and hyperlink within an Android app   In string xml    lt string name  applink  gt Looking for Digital Visiting card    lt a href  https   play google com store apps details id com themarkwebs govcard  gt Get it here lt  a gt   lt  string gt    Now you can utilise this string in any given View like this    lt TextView     android id    id getapp      android layout width  match parent      android layout height  50dp      android gravity  center      android textColor   color main color grey 600      android textSize  15sp      android text   string applink   gt    Now  in your Activity or Fragment  do the following   TextView getapp   TextView  findViewById R id getapp   getapp setMovementMethod LinkMovementMethod getInstance       By now  you don t require to set android autoLink  web  or android linksClickable  true  using this approach   I hope you will find this helpful

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Richard  next time  you should add this code under TextView at the layout XML instead   android autoLink  all    This should be like this    lt TextView      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content       android text   string txtCredits      android id    id infoTxtCredits      android autoLink  all      android linksClickable  true  gt   lt  TextView gt    You don t need to use this code  t2 setMovementMethod LinkMovementMethod getInstance      in order to make the link clickable   Also  here s the truth  as long as you set the autoLink and the linksClickable  don t forget to add this at String xml file so that the clickable link will work    lt string name  txtCredits  gt  lt a href  http   www google com  gt Google lt  a gt  lt  string gt

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I added this line to the TextView  android autoLink  web   Below is an example of usage in a layout file   layout xml sample       lt TextView         android id    id txtLostpassword          android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content          android layout gravity  center          android autoLink  email          android gravity  center          android padding  20px          android text   string lostpassword          android textAppearance   android attr textAppearanceSmall    gt        lt TextView         android id    id txtDefaultpassword          android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content          android layout gravity  center          android autoLink  web          android gravity  center          android padding  20px          android text   string defaultpassword          android textAppearance   android attr textAppearanceSmall    gt    string xml   lt string name  lostpassword  gt If you lost your password please contact  lt a href  mailto support cleverfinger com au Subject Lost 20Password  target   top  gt support cleverfinger com au lt  a gt  lt  string gt    lt string name  defaultpassword  gt User Guide  lt a href  http   www cleverfinger com au user-guide   gt http   www cleverfinger com au user-guide  lt  a gt  lt  string gt

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I hope this will help you   String value     lt html gt Visit my blog  lt a href   http   www maxartists com   gt mysite lt  a gt  View  lt a href   sherif-activity   myactivity author sherif amp nick king   gt myactivity lt  a gt  callback lt  html gt        TextView text    TextView  findViewById R id text         text setText Html fromHtml value        text setMovementMethod LinkMovementMethod getInstance

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