How to set the part of the text view is clickable

Question

I have the text \"Android is a Software stack\". In this text i want to set the \"stack\" text is clickable. in the sense if you click on t

Answer 1

You can you this method to set the clickable value

public void setClickableString(String clickableValue, String wholeValue, TextView yourTextView){
    String value = wholeValue;
    SpannableString spannableString = new SpannableString(value);
    int startIndex = value.indexOf(clickableValue);
    int endIndex = startIndex + clickableValue.length();
    spannableString.setSpan(new ClickableSpan() {
                                @Override
                                public void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds) {
                                    super.updateDrawState(ds);
                                    ds.setUnderlineText(false); // <-- this will remove automatic underline in set span
                                }

                                @Override
                                public void onClick(View widget) {
                                    // do what you want with clickable value
                                }
                            }, startIndex, endIndex, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
    yourTextView.setText(spannableString);
    yourTextView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()); // <-- important, onClick in ClickableSpan won't work without this
}

This is how to use it:

TextView myTextView = findViewById(R.id.myTextView);
setClickableString("stack", "Android is a Software stack", myTextView);