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

Complicated but universal solution on Kotlin

  /*
    * Receive Pair of Text and Action and set it clickable and appearing as link
    * */
fun TextView.setClickableText(vararg textToSpanAndClickAction: Pair Unit>) {
    val builder = SpannableStringBuilder(text.toString())

    textToSpanAndClickAction.forEach { argPair ->
    val clickableSpan = object : ClickableSpan() {
        override fun onClick(widget: View) {
            argPair.second.invoke(argPair.first)
        }
    }

    this.text.toString().let { fullText ->
        val indexOfFirst = fullText.indexOf(argPair.first)
        val indexOfLast = indexOfFirst + argPair.first.length
        if (indexOfFirst < 0){
            //No match found
            return
        }else{
            builder.setSpan(
                clickableSpan,
                indexOfFirst,
                indexOfLast,
                Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE
            )
        }
    }
}

this.text = builder
    this.movementMethod = LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()
}

kotlin spannable