Control onclicklistener in autolink enabled textview

Question

I am using a TextView for which I have set autolink=\"web\" property in XML file. I have also implemented the onClickListener for this TextView. Th

Answer 1

private void fixTextView(TextView tv) {
    SpannableString current = (SpannableString) tv.getText();
    URLSpan[] spans =
            current.getSpans(0, current.length(), URLSpan.class);

    for (URLSpan span : spans) {
        int start = current.getSpanStart(span);
        int end = current.getSpanEnd(span);

        current.removeSpan(span);
        current.setSpan(new DefensiveURLSpan(span.getURL()), start, end,
                0);
    }
}

public static class DefensiveURLSpan extends URLSpan {

    public final static Parcelable.Creator CREATOR =
            new Parcelable.Creator() {

        @Override
        public DefensiveURLSpan createFromParcel(Parcel source) {
            return new DefensiveURLSpan(source.readString());
        }

        @Override
        public DefensiveURLSpan[] newArray(int size) {
            return new DefensiveURLSpan[size];
        }

    };

private String mUrl;

public DefensiveURLSpan(String url) {
    super(url);
    mUrl = url;
}

    @Override
    public void onClick(View widget) {
        // openInWebView(widget.getContext(), mUrl); // intercept click event and do something.
        // super.onClick(widget); // or it will do as it is.
    }
}

You would then call fixTextView(textViewContent); on the view after it is declared (via inflation or findViewById) or added to the window (via addView)

This includes the missing requirement to set a CREATOR when extending a Parcelable.

It was proposed as an edit, but rejected. Unfortunately, now future users will have to find out the original one is incomplete first. Nice one, reviewers!