How to click or tap on a TextView text

Question

I know this is so easy (doh...) but I am looking for a way to run a method on tapping or clicking a TextView line of text in an Android App.

I keep thinking about bu

Answer 1

To click on a piece of the text (not the whole TextView), you can use Html or Linkify (both create links that open urls, though, not a callback in the app).

Linkify

Use a string resource like:

Here is a link: http://www.stackoverflow.com

Then in a textview:

TextView textView = ...
textView.setText(R.string.links);
Linkify.addLinks(textView, Linkify.ALL);

Html

Using Html.fromHtml:

Here you can put html <a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com">Link!</>

Then in your textview:

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.html)));