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android set a link on a textView

I'm trying to attach a link to a TextView. But I can't seem to get it to work.
Here's the TextView
<TextView
android:id="#+id/terms"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:clickable="true"
android:linksClickable="true"
android:text="#string/terms" />
And here's the setLink() method
private void setLinks(){
String termsURI = "";
TextView termsTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.terms);
String termsLink = "<a href='www.google.com'>terms test</a>";
termsTextView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
termsTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(termsLink));
}
I've tried
How do I make links in a TextView clickable?
I want text view as a clickable link
Android TextView Hyperlink
All 3 are highly reviewed and did not work for me. Which leads me to believe I'm doing something wrong.
Is there something wrong here? or possibly some tips?
One thing to add, I need to be able to set the link in a method, since our live and debug environment differ. (different domains)

Maybe you missed "http://" in the URL string.
Please try this one:
String termsLink = "<a href='http://www.google.com'>terms test</a>";

Android TextView Hyperlink

I'm implementing a TextView with a string containing two hyperlinks as below but the links are not opening a new browser window:
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:gravity="center"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:paddingLeft="50dp"
android:paddingRight="50dp"
android:textSize="14sp"
android:clickable="true"
android:linksClickable="true"
android:textColorLink="#color/colorPrimary"
android:autoLink="web"
android:text="#string/agree_terms_privacy"/>
In string.xml
<string name="agree_terms_privacy">By continuing, you agree to our Terms of Use and read the Privacy Policy</string>

Here is the solution that worked for me, after looking through multiple Stack Overflow posts. I've tailored it to your implementation:
1. Remove autolink in favor of using LinkMovementMethod, and set linksClickable to true
<TextView
android:id="#+id/termsOfUse"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:gravity="center"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:paddingLeft="50dp"
android:paddingRight="50dp"
android:textSize="14sp"
android:clickable="true"
android:linksClickable="true"
android:textColorLink="#color/colorPrimary"
android:text="#string/agree_terms_privacy"/>
If you use the android:autoLink="web" property then you'll have to override it with textView.setAutoLinkMask(0); before calling setText() on your TextView. You can also set the link to be clickable in your activity instead like in Harshal's answer if you prefer, but I left it since you already had it in the layout. I also added an id to your TextView called termsOfUse which we'll use later.
2. Replace < with < in strings.xml and remove double quotes around the url
This is because when you retrieve the string resource, it won't parse the embedded html correctly, and for some reason it doesn't escape the double quotes. So instead of:
<string name="agree_terms_privacy">By continuing, you agree to our Terms of Use and read the Privacy Policy</string>
you'll want to do:
<string name="agree_terms_privacy">By continuing, you agree to our <a href=http://link1/terms>Terms of Use</a> and read the <a href=http://link1/privacy>Privacy Policy</a></string>
3. Parsing the string resource and binding it to our TextView
Spanned policy = Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.agree_terms_privacy));
TextView termsOfUse = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.termsOfUse);
termsOfUse.setText(policy);
termsOfUse.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
Note: Html.fromHtml has been deprecated in API 24 (see this post for more information on how to handle this if needed). We use this method to get the expected HTML formatting from our string.

Have a look on below code snippet, hope it helps,
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));

This works for me
Add this in your textview:
android:autoLink="all"
android:clickable="true"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnJxyfyDyHU
I hope this help you.

I would recommend you to have two TextViews since ou want two different actions:
TextView yourTermsOfUseTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.your_id);
yourTermsOfUseTextView.setOnclickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View view) {
Intent myIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(your_download_link));
startActivity(myIntent);
}
});
Repeat to the privacy policy.

Just add below code in your Textview
android:autoLink="email"

You can use like bellow..
textview xml
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tv_welcome_message"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="16sp"/>
In activity
TextView tv_welcome_message=(TextView) findViewById(R.id.tv_welcome_message);
tv_welcome_message.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
String text = " <a href='http://www.google.com'> Google </a>";
tv_welcome_message.setText(Html.fromHtml(text));

MainActivity.java
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
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/txtCredits"/>
Don't forget to remove autoLink="web" if you are calling setMovementMethod()

Just use Linkify
textView.text = text
Linkify.addLinks(textView, Linkify.WEB_URLS)

This worked for me
Add this in your textview
android:linksClickable="true"
android:autoLink="all"
AutoLink Values: all, email, map, none, phone, web Controls whether links such as urls and email addresses are automatically found and converted to clickable links. The default value is "none", disabling this feature.

set TextView with string which contains a clickable HTML link

I have a TextView in layout
<TextView
android:id="#+id/homepage"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
I would like to set a string with HTML link in this TextView, and make the link clickable (open the link on browser when clicked). I tried the following:
I defined the string in resource, the string contains a HTML link to google website:
<string name="home_page">please go to <a ref="www.google.com">www.google.com!</a>.
In my Activity:
TextView homepage = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.homepage);
String text = getString(R.string.home_page)
CharSequence styledText = Html.fromHtml(text);
homepage.setText(styledText.toString());
The result is please go to www.google.com , but the www.google.com is not a clickable link. How to make it clickable? (I mean open the link in browser when clicked)

Try this..
Don't forget to use http:// before www. otherwise you will get ActivityNotFoundException
TextView homepage = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.homepage);
homepage.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
homepage.setText(Html.fromHtml("<font color='#696969'> please go to "+"http://www.google.com"+"</font>"));

All the code to do this is described in this blog.. check it
http://android-developers.blogspot.fi/2008/03/linkify-your-text.html

below code work for me:-
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txt_post_message"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:autoLink="web"
android:textSize="16sp" />
Autolink inside a TextView in android
http://alltechsolution.wordpress.com/2012/06/17/how-do-i-make-links-in-a-textview-clickable/
http://www.technotalkative.com/android-textview-autolink-attribute/

<TextView
android:id="#+id/links"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:clickable="true"
android:autoLink="web"
android:text="www.google.com" />
Try this code it's worked for me.

How to make normal links in TextView clickable?

In my Android app, I have a TextView. The text can contain links. This is an example of a text:
This is just a test. Click the following link http://www.google.com to visit Google.
Note that the text is not in HTML; it will be just a regular text.
I want to do something like textView.parseLinks(), then in the TextView, http://www.google.com will be hyper-linked and clickable to open up the page.
Is this possible?
Thanks

Try and include the following in the TextView definition in XML file:
<TextView
...
android:autoLink="web"/>
The docs of android:autoLink say:
Controls whether links such as urls and email addresses are automatically found and converted to clickable links
So for automatically finding links, the above may help. Try and see.

Something like this should work.
TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
String text = "This is just a test. Click this link here Google to visit google.";
tv.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
tv.setText(Html.fromHtml(text));

<TextView
...
android:autoLink="..."/>
//set ... by web|email|none|phone|map|all according to your need
// to change link color add below line
android:textColorLink="#color/yourcolor"

try this..it is working for me
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:autoLink="web"
android:text="click here http://www.google.com/"/>

Simple way to make selecting URL and Phone numbers in TextView:
TextView textView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView1);
textView.setText("some url is www.google.com phone 7504567890 another url lkgndflg.com ");
Linkify.addLinks(textView, Linkify.WEB_URLS | Linkify.PHONE_NUMBERS);

Textview link click in fragment - nothing happen [duplicate]

I have the following TextView defined:
<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"/>
where #string/txtCredits is a string resource that contains Link text.
Android is highlighting the links in the TextView, but they do not respond to clicks. What am I doing wrong? Do I have to set an onClickListener for the TextView in my activity for something as simple as this?
It looks like it has to do with the way I define my string resource.
This does not work:
<string name="txtCredits">Google</string>
But this does:
<string name="txtCredits">www.google.com</string>
Which is a bummer because I would much rather show a text link than show the full URL.

Buried in the API demos, I found the solution to my problem:
File Link.java:
// text2 has links specified by putting <a> 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.
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/txtCredits"/>
That solved it. It is pretty difficult to uncover and fix.
Important: Don't forget to remove autoLink="web" if you are calling setMovementMethod().

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.

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 http://www.google.com
Some text http://www.google.com
view.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()); will work with the following (will be highlighted and clickable):
Some text http://www.google.com
Some text http://www.google.com
Some text Go to Google
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.

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.:
<a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>
And not:
Google
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 regular expressiones or other manual hacks are required.

I simply used this:
Linkify.addLinks(TextView, Linkify.ALL);
It makes the links clickable, given here.

If you want to add an HTML-like link, all you need to do is:
add a resource HTML-like string:
<string name="link">Google</string>
add your view to the layout with no link-specific configuration at all:
<TextView
android:id="#+id/link"
android:text="#string/link" />`
add the 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...

The following should work for anyone who is looking for a combination of text and hyperlink within an Android app.
In string.xml:
<string name="applink">Looking for Digital Visiting card?
Get it here
</string>
Now you can utilise this string in any given View like this:
<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"/>
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 added this line to the TextView: android:autoLink="web"
Below is an example of usage in a layout file.
layout.xml
<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" />
<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" />
string.xml
<string name="lostpassword">If you lost your password please contact support#cleverfinger.com.au</string>
<string name="defaultpassword">User Guide http://www.cleverfinger.com.au/user-guide/</string>

I hope this will help you;
String value = "<html>Visit my blog mysite View myactivity callback</html>";
TextView text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text);
text.setText(Html.fromHtml(value));
text.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

The easiest thing that worked for me was 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.

You only need to add this in the text view in XML:
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:autoLink="web"/>

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);

By using linkify:
Linkify takes 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://example.com");
Linkify.addLinks(textView, Linkify.WEB_URLS);
Don't forget to
import android.widget.TextView;

Richard, next time, you should add this code under TextView at the layout XML instead.
android:autoLink="all"
This should be like this.
<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">
</TextView>
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.
<string name="txtCredits">Google</string>

Here is a very one-line Android code to make phone and URL selectable from textView no matter what the string is and what the data is. You don’t 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);

I noticed that using android:autoLink="web" thus
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:autoLink="web"/>
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
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:autoLink="all"/>
and it worked like a charm.

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 an autolink in the XML content.
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.

Be sure to not use setAutoLinkMask(Linkify.ALL) when using setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()) and Html.fromHTML() on properly formatted HTML links (for example, Google).

You need only this:
android:autoLink="web"
Insert this line into a TextView that can be clickable with a reference to the web. The URL is set as a text of this TextView.
Example:
<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" />

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 a permission in the manifest file:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

Add this to your EditText:
android:autoLink="web"
android:linksClickable="true"

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("<a href='http://" + url + "'>http://" + url + "</a>"));
}

Use the below code:
String html = "Your Domain Name"
TextView textview = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.your_textview_id);
textview.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
textview.setText(Html.fromHtml(html));

[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:
<string name="your_text">![CDATA[...Link Title ...]]</string>
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 >= 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.
}

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 & $microsoft").apply {
setLinkSpan(google, googleUrl)
setLinkSpan(microsoft, microsoftUrl)
}
text = message
}
Enjoy!

I had to hunt this down in a couple places, but I finally got this version of the code to work.
File strings.xml:
<string name="name1"><a href="http://www.google.com">link text1</a></string>
<string name="name2"><a href="http://www.google.com">link text2</a></string>
File myactivity.xml:
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textview1"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="5dp" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textview2"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="5dp" />
File 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.

Add CDATA to your string resource
Strings.xml
<string name="txtCredits"><![CDATA[Google]]></string>

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 programmatically, but it works.

If using an 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 the XML content or in the code.
In the XML content that has the TextView, add these:
android:linksClickable="true"
android:autoLink="web"

I just wasted so much time to figure out you have to use getText(R.string.whatever) instead of getString(R.string.whatever)...
Anyway, 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());
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/termsTextView"/>
String example:
<string name="stripe_connected_account_agreement">Stripe Connected Account Agreement</string>