Android: How can I add HTML links inside a ListView?

Question

How would I go about adding clickable links inside a ListView?

Answer 1

Hmm, it seems that adding textcontent.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()); makes it so that the clicks on the textview's text parts are no longer passed through to the listview below.

I found a simple workaround under Issue 3414, Comment 27:

An easy way to work around this problem is to call "setDescendantFocusability(FOCUS_BLOCK_DESCENDANTS);" on the listView views as they are added. You'll be able to select rows, click on rows and click on child checkboxes and buttons.

It worked perfectly for me, although some casting was required:

View v;
((ViewGroup)v).setDescendantFocusability(ViewGroup.FOCUS_BLOCK_DESCENDANTS);