Android active link of url in TextView

Question

I have getting dynamic text from a web service and showing the same in a TextView. Sometimes the TextView has url like hello

Answer 1

There are 2 cases:

• the text looks like "click on http://www.hello.com"

then you just have to set the autoLink attribute in the xml so that the link is automatically detected in the text:

• the text looks like click on hello

then you have to do it by code and tell the text is html, and specify a Link movement method for the click:

    String text = "click on hello";
    TextView textView = view.findViewById(R.id.textView);
    textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(text));
    textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());