Android: Make your TextView look like a hyperlink

There's no shortage of posts regarding Linkify and automatically making part of the TextView clickable. Just search for "android textview hyperlink" and you'll get a fair idea.

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1.TextView tvMessage = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txtMsg);

2.tvMessage.setAutoLinkMask(Linkify.ALL);

And the result would be something like...

But when you don't want the text to include http:// is when you'll have to look elsewhere.

To get this, it's really simple. You can even make a quick TextView subclass out of it.

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01./**

02.  * Sets a hyperlink style to the textview.

03.  */

04.public static void makeTextViewHyperlink(TextView tv) {

05.  SpannableStringBuilder ssb = new SpannableStringBuilder();

06.  ssb.append(tv.getText());

07.  ssb.setSpan(new URLSpan("#"), 0, ssb.length(), Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

08.  tv.setText(ssb, TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);

09.}

And to set up the click handler, just use an ordinary OnClickListener so you can handle the click any way you want.

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01.TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.linkRecipes);

02.Utils.makeTextViewHyperlink(tv);

03.tv.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

04.  @Override

05.  public void onClick(View v) {

06.    Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), RecipeActivity.class);

07.    startActivity(intent);

08.  }

09.});

Done, like a BOSS!

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Sources

• Android: How to open a webpage
• Android Source code for Linkify