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Capture http link click event in android textview

I have a link in android textview. I am not able to capture the link click event.
String text = "http:://www.google.com is a google link";
textview.setText(text);
"http:://www.google.com" this span of string is clickable in textview. I want to capture that particular click event.
I tried the following.
public static void setTextView(TextView text, CharSequence sequence) {
UoloLogger.i(TAG, "Setting string :: "+sequence);
SpannableStringBuilder strBuilder = new SpannableStringBuilder(sequence);
URLSpan[] urls = strBuilder.getSpans(0, sequence.length(), URLSpan.class);
for(URLSpan span : urls) {
makeLinkClickable(strBuilder, span);
}
text.setText(strBuilder);
text.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
}
public static void makeLinkClickable(SpannableStringBuilder strBuilder, final URLSpan span) {
int start = strBuilder.getSpanStart(span);
int end = strBuilder.getSpanEnd(span);
int flags = strBuilder.getSpanFlags(span);
ClickableSpan clickable = new ClickableSpan() {
public void onClick(View view) {
UoloLogger.i(TAG, span.getURL());
}
};
strBuilder.setSpan(clickable, start, end, flags);
strBuilder.removeSpan(span);
}
I started setting text into my textview using setTextView() method. I am getting URLSpan array is empty even if i am having the links.
String text = "http:://www.google.com is a google link";
setTextView(textView, text);
Sorry for the bad english. I think, i have explained my problem. Can someone help me.

public static void setLinkclickEvent(TextView tv, HandleLinkClickInsideTextView clickInterface) {
String text = tv.getText().toString();
String str = "([Hh][tT][tT][pP][sS]?:\\/\\/[^ ,'\">\\]\\)]*[^\\. ,'\">\\]\\)])";
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(str);
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(tv.getText());
while (matcher.find()) {
int x = matcher.start();
int y = matcher.end();
final android.text.SpannableString f = new android.text.SpannableString(
tv.getText());
InternalURLSpan span = new InternalURLSpan();
span.setText(text.substring(x, y));
span.setClickInterface(clickInterface);
f.setSpan(span, x, y,
android.text.Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
tv.setText(f);
}
tv.setLinksClickable(true);
tv.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
tv.setFocusable(false);
}
public static class InternalURLSpan extends android.text.style.ClickableSpan {
private String text;
private HandleLinkClickInsideTextView clickInterface;
#Override
public void onClick(View widget) {
getClickInterface().onLinkClicked(getText());
}
public void setText(String textString) {
this.text = textString;
}
public String getText() {
return this.text;
}
public void setClickInterface(HandleLinkClickInsideTextView clickInterface) {
this.clickInterface = clickInterface;
}
public HandleLinkClickInsideTextView getClickInterface() {
return this.clickInterface;
}
}
public interface HandleLinkClickInsideTextView {
public void onLinkClicked(String url);
}
After this i just used the method send click event.
textview.setText("http://google.com is google website and http://youtube.com is youtube site");
setLinkclickEvent(textview, new HandleLinkClickInsideTextView() {
public void onLinkClicked(String url) {
// Here I added my code
}
});

You can achieved the same using SpannableStringBuilder.
Simply initialize the TextView that you want to add 2 or more listeners and then pass that to the following method that I have created:
SAMPLE CODE:
private void customTextView(TextView view) {
SpannableStringBuilder spanTxt = new SpannableStringBuilder(
"I agree to the ");
spanTxt.append("Term of services");
spanTxt.setSpan(new ClickableSpan() {
#Override
public void onClick(View widget) {
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Terms of services Clicked",
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
}, spanTxt.length() - "Term of services".length(), spanTxt.length(), 0);
spanTxt.append(" and");
spanTxt.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.BLACK), 32, spanTxt.length(), 0);
spanTxt.append(" Privacy Policy");
spanTxt.setSpan(new ClickableSpan() {
#Override
public void onClick(View widget) {
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Privacy Policy Clicked",
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
}, spanTxt.length() - " Privacy Policy".length(), spanTxt.length(), 0);
view.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
view.setText(spanTxt, BufferType.SPANNABLE);
}
And in your XML, use android:textColorLink to add custom link color of your choice. Like this:
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TextView"
android:textColorLink="#C36241" />

If you want to open a link after textview click, there are two options:
Using java code:
Spanned text = Html.fromHtml("<u>GOOGLE.COM</u>");
textView.setText(text);
Uri uri = Uri.parse("http://shopwhere.com.au/");
Intent webIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,uri);
// Create and start the chooser
Intent chooser = Intent.createChooser(webIntent, "Open with");
startActivityForResult(chooser,0);
Using XML:
Use android:autoLink="web" inside textview tag. You can also change link color android:textColorHighlight="#android:color/transparent" and android:textColorLink="#color/white".

How to handle link click events in a textView

I am using Jsoup to parse the a website, formatting it with Html.fromHtml()and displaying the formatted text in a textview.
Also, I'm using LinkMoveMentmethod.getInstance to make the links in the textview clickable.
When the links are clicked they fired up a chooser to choose browsers.
Please, how can I override this default behaviour.
For example, I would want to pass the clicked url to my own activity and use Jsoup to parse it also.
CODE
TextView pageContent;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_page_details);
getWindow().getDecorView().setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);
pageContent = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.dpage_content);
}
....
private void parseHtml(String response) {
Log.d(TAG, "parsinghtml");
Document document = Jsoup.parse(response);
page_content = document.select("div.page-content").first().html();
Spanned spanned = Html.fromHtml(page_content, new UILImageGetter(pageContent, this), null );
}

You need to create your custom class which extends LinkMovementMethod.
public class LinkClickHandler extends LinkMovementMethod{
private static LinkClickHandler sInstance;
public static LinkClickHandler getInstance() {
if (sInstance == null)
sInstance = new LinkClickHandler();
return sInstance;
}
#Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(TextView widget,
Spannable buffer, MotionEvent event) {
int action = event.getAction();
if (action == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
//Implement your code for handling the click.
}
return super.onTouchEvent(widget, buffer, event);
}
}
To use this, change LinkMovementMethod.getInstance to LinkClickHandler.getInstance

You can use clickable span
ClickableSpan cs = new ClickableSpan() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
Log.d("main", "textview clicked");
Toast.makeText(Main.this, "textview clicked",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
} };
// set the "test " spannable.
span.setSpan(cs, 0, 5, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
tv.setText(span);
tv.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

Not Returning to App After Following Link

Content is delivered to my app from a server, sometimes the content contains tel: or mailto: hyperlinks. Currently I use html.fromhtml() and setMovementMethod to make the textview links clickable:
((TextView) findViewById(R.id.c_data)).setText(Html.fromHtml(HTML_out));
((TextView) findViewById(R.id.c_data)).setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
and this works, allows the user to open mailto links, phone links and anything else.
The problem is it closes my app when they click the link, so if they click back from the phone or email it takes them back to the home screen instead of my app.
From what I can see, when the link is clicked for some reason onStop is called. How can I avoid this so the app will be re-opened right after the call/email?
example data:
<b>Title1</b>(44#) ###-####
<b>Title2</b>test#gmail.com
<b>Title3</b>google.ca
edit:
I tried to use an intent:
((TextView) findViewById(R.id.cust_data)).setText(Html.fromHtml(HTML_out));
//((TextView) findViewById(R.id.cust_data)).setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
((TextView) findViewById(R.id.cust_data)).setMovementMethod(new MovementMethod() {
#Override
public void initialize(TextView widget, Spannable text) {
//Log.i("Test click","Good");
}
#Override
public boolean onKeyDown(TextView widget, Spannable text, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
return false;
}
#Override
public boolean onKeyUp(TextView widget, Spannable text, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
//Log.i("Test click","Good");
return false;
}
#Override
public boolean onKeyOther(TextView view, Spannable text, KeyEvent event) {
//Log.i("Test click","Good");
return false;
}
#Override
public void onTakeFocus(TextView widget, Spannable text, int direction) {
}
#Override
public boolean onTrackballEvent(TextView widget, Spannable text, MotionEvent event) {
return false;
}
#Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(TextView widget, Spannable text, MotionEvent event) {
if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
Log.i("Test click", text.toString());
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_DIAL);
intent.setData(Uri.parse("tel:0123456789"));
startActivity(intent);
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
#Override
public boolean onGenericMotionEvent(TextView widget, Spannable text, MotionEvent event) {
return false;
}
#Override
public boolean canSelectArbitrarily() {
return false;
}
});
Just to text I used a static phone number. This still doesn't take me back to my app after.

From your last comment it sounds like you are going to possibly have several links inside of one textview. If that's the case then what you want is to set the text with a spannable, which allows you to determine what links are in there, what their text says, and other formatting like bold or italic text for only part of the text. Try something like this:
final SpannableStringBuilder content = getContent(); // This method is explained below.
final TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.my_text_view);
textView.setLinksClickable(true);
textView.setText(content, TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
getContent() - This is where it will be more difficult to give you an answer, since we don't know how you're getting your links. When I wrote an application that did this it was pulling data from an xml file, so the links were marked in it. I will paste that code, so you can base yours off of it, but unless you are doing exactly the same as we were then you'll have to modify it to get your links.
if (contentNode instanceof Element && contentNode.getNodeName().equals("section")) {
String sectionTitle = ((Element) contentNode).getAttribute("title");
article.headers.add(sectionTitle);
NodeList sectionList = contentNode.getChildNodes();
String text = "";
ArrayList<String> links = new ArrayList<>(), linkStrings = new ArrayList<>();
for (int k = 0; k < sectionList.getLength(); k++) {
Node sectionNode = sectionList.item(k);
if (sectionNode instanceof Element && sectionNode.getNodeName().equals("text")) {
NodeList textNodes = sectionNode.getChildNodes();
for (int l = 0; l < textNodes.getLength(); l++) {
Node attributeNode = textNodes.item(l);
text += attributeNode.getTextContent();
}
}
if (sectionNode instanceof Element && sectionNode.getNodeName().equals("embedded_link")) {
String linkDestination = ((Element) sectionNode).getAttribute("destination");
String linkString = ((Element) sectionNode).getAttribute("string");
linkStrings.add(linkString);
links.add(linkDestination);
}
} // end k forloop
SpannableStringBuilder spannableStringBuilder = new SpannableStringBuilder(text);
// Loop through all of the links.
for (int m = 0; m < links.size(); m++) {
final String linkString = linkStrings.get(m);
final String link = links.get(m);
final int start = text.indexOf(linkString);
final int end = start + linkString.length();
ClickableSpan clickableSpan = new ClickableSpan() {
#Override
public void onClick(View widget) {
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
i.setData(Uri.parse(link));
context.startActivity(i);
}
};
if (start > -1) {
try {
spannableStringBuilder.setSpan(clickableSpan, start, end, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("couldn't spannable text", linkString);
}
}
} // end m forloop
article.bodyContent.put(sectionTitle, spannableStringBuilder);
} // end if for section
Hopefully that all isn't too confusing. If you have more questions let me know.

Get the value of link text when clicked in a textview in android

I have a TextView. I have added custom links like "#abc", "#android" by matching some regex pattern. The links are displaying properly. However I am not getting a way to extract the text of the link which is clicked. I am using SpannableString to setText to the textview. I then set spans using my custom ClickableSpan. It works fine. Plus I can also catch the onclick event. But the onClick() method has a View paramter. If I call getText() on the View (ofcourse after typecasting it to TextView), it returns the entire text.
I searched a lot but always found ways to add links and catch the event, but none told about getting the text of the link.
This is the code I am using to add links and recieve onclick. I got the code from one of the SO threads..
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("#[\\w]+");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(tv.getText());//tv is my TextView
while (matcher.find()) {
int x = matcher.start();
int y = matcher.end();
final android.text.SpannableString f = new android.text.SpannableString(
tv.getText());
f.setSpan(new InternalURLSpan(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
showDialog(1);
}
}), x, y, android.text.Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
tv.setText(f);
tv.setLinkTextColor(Color.rgb(19, 111, 154));
tv.setLinksClickable(true);
Here is the InternalURLSpan:
class InternalURLSpan extends android.text.style.ClickableSpan {
View.OnClickListener mListener;
public InternalURLSpan(View.OnClickListener listener) {
mListener = listener;
}
#Override
public void onClick(View widget) {
mListener.onClick(widget);
TextView tv = (TextView) widget;
System.out.println("tv.gettext() :: " + tv.getText());
Toast.makeText(MyActivity.this,tv.getText(),
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
}
Is it possible to get the text of the link clicked?
If not, is there a way of associating some data to a particular link and knowing which link gets clicked?
Any pointers.
Thanks

The solution goes like this -
Call setLinks() with you textview and the text to be added.
setLinks(textView, text);
setLinks() function is as -
void setLinks(TextView tv, String text) {
String[] linkPatterns = {
"([Hh][tT][tT][pP][sS]?:\\/\\/[^ ,'\">\\]\\)]*[^\\. ,'\">\\]\\)])",
"#[\\w]+", "#[\\w]+" };
for (String str : linkPatterns) {
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(str);
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(tv.getText());
while (matcher.find()) {
int x = matcher.start();
int y = matcher.end();
final android.text.SpannableString f = new android.text.SpannableString(
tv.getText());
InternalURLSpan span = new InternalURLSpan();
span.text = text.substring(x, y);
f.setSpan(span, x, y,
android.text.Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
tv.setText(f);
// tv.setOnLongClickListener(span.l);
}
}
tv.setLinkTextColor(Color.BLUE);
tv.setLinksClickable(true);
tv.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
tv.setFocusable(false);
}
and the InternalURLSpan class goes like this -
class InternalURLSpan extends android.text.style.ClickableSpan {
public String text;
#Override
public void onClick(View widget) {
handleLinkClicked(text);
}
}
handleLinkClicked() is as -
public void handleLinkClicked(String value) {
if (value.startsWith("http")) { // handle http links
} else if (value.startsWith("#")) { // handle #links
} else if (value.startsWith("#")) { // handle #links
}
}

Here is a pretty simple solution I found to get the value of the link inside the TextView when the user clicks on it. In this case I'm using phone numbers and it works like a charm.
myTextView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
if(myTextView.getSelectionStart()== -1 &&
myTextView.getSelectionEnd() == -1){
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "You clicked outside the link",
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
else {
int start = myTextView.getSelectionStart();
int end = myTextView.getSelectionEnd();
String selected = myTextView.getText().toString().substring(start, end);
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
"Clicked: " + selected,
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
}
});
Hope it helps.

Use
android:linksClickable="true"
android:autoLink="web"
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance())

android dev how to underline and change color of word in string like a link color

I have a app that gets a string from a database and it sets to a label. Now i want that label to underline one word such as "This word should be underlined." and i want to be able to click on that underline word and get its value. So do i set it up before i send it to the database or after. Thanks for any help. I tried code below and each line is highlighted because of the for loop. please help
SpannableStringBuilder builder = new SpannableStringBuilder();
for(int i=0;i<ListClass.getLatestActivity().size();i++){
String myString = ListClass.getLatestActivity().get(i);
builder.append(myString);
String substringThatShouldBeClickable = myString.substring(0,myString.indexOf(' ')).trim();
MySpan span = new MySpan(substringThatShouldBeClickable);
span.setOnMySpanClickListener(mySpanOnClickListener);
int start = 0;
int end = builder.length();
builder.setSpan(span, start, end, 0);
builder.append("\n" + "\n") ;
}
RAInfo.setText(builder);
RAInfo.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

Ok, so there's a few things you'll need to do. They way to accomplish this is by using a span inside of the TextView.
First you'll need a class that extends ClickableSpan:
public class MySpan extends ClickableSpan {
public interface OnMySpanClickListener {
public void onMySpanClick(String tag);
}
private final String myData;
private OnMySpanClickListener mOnMySpanClickListener;
public MySpan(String tag) {
super();
if (tag == null) {
throw new NullPointerException();
}
myData = tag;
}
#Override
public void onClick(View widget) {
if (mOnMySpanClickListener != null) {
mOnMySpanClickListener.onMySpanClick(myData);
}
}
public OnMySpanClickListener getOnMySpanClickListener() {
return mOnMySpanClickListener;
}
public void setOnMySpanClickListener(OnMySpanClickListener onMySpanClickListener) {
mOnMySpanClickListener = onMySpanClickListener;
}
}
In your Activity, you'll set the text of the TextView like this:
String myString = getFromDatabase();
SpannableStringBuilder builder = new SpannableStringBuilder();
builder.append(myString);
//You'll need to call the constructor for MySpan with only the value of the part
//of the string that you want to work with ("Bob" in the example), however you
//determine that.
String substringThatShouldBeClickable = getMySubstring(myString); //"Bob"
MySpan span = new MySpan(substringThatShouldBeClickable);
span.setOnMySpanClickListener(mySpanOnClickListener);
//start and end control the range of characters in the string that are clickable,
//so modify this part so it only underlines the characters you want clickable
int start = 0;
int end = bulider.length();
builder.setSpan(span, start, end, 0);
label.setText(builder);
label.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
Finally, you'll need a handler for the click events on the span:
MySpan.OnMySpanClickListener mySpanOnClickListener = new MySpan.OnMySpanClickListener() {
public void onMySpanClick(String tag) {
//Here is where you'll do your work with the value in the String "tag"
}
};
Hope this helps.