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

Question

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

Answer 1

The tricky part of listview is nothing within (for instance a TextView of a Button) is clickable!

Basically you need two string arrays:

1. names that users see on the list_view;
2. hyperlinks that you want to direct them to go.

In the array.xml:

    Google
    Yahoo
    Bing
    Baidu


    https://www.google.com
    https://www.yahoo.com
    https://www.bing.com
    https://www.baidu.com

In the layout_search_provider.xml it contains a list view:

In your activity:

public class SearchProvider implements  AdapterView.OnItemClickListener {
    private ListView lv_search;
    private String[] names = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.search_provider_name_array);
    private String[] links = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.search_provider_link_array);

    //..

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(View v, String name, Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        lv_search= (ListView) v.findViewById(R.id.lv_search);

        ArrayAdapter sAdapter = new ArrayAdapter(getActivity(), android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, names);
        lv_search.setAdapter(sAdapter);
        lv_search.setOnItemClickListener(this);

        return v;
    }

    @Override
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView adapterView, View view, int i, long l) {
        if(i

When your list is dynamic, you can the following method(s) to update your listview.

• move the code in onCreateView() into onResume().
• sAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();