Open TextView links at another activity, not default browser

Question

Having the textView with autoLinkMask set to Linkify.ALL, i\'m able to open the links and the browser shows the web-page.

I need to call a

Answer 1

Step #1: Create your own subclass of ClickableSpan that does what you want in its onClick() method (e.g., called YourCustomClickableSpan)

Step #2: Run a bulk conversion of all of the URLSpan objects to be YourCustomClickableSpan objects. I have a utility class for this:

public class RichTextUtils {
    public static  Spannable replaceAll(Spanned original,
    Class sourceType,
    SpanConverter converter) {
        SpannableString result=new SpannableString(original);
        A[] spans=result.getSpans(0, result.length(), sourceType);

        for (A span : spans) {
            int start=result.getSpanStart(span);
            int end=result.getSpanEnd(span);
            int flags=result.getSpanFlags(span);

            result.removeSpan(span);
            result.setSpan(converter.convert(span), start, end, flags);
        }

        return(result);
    }

    public interface SpanConverter {
        B convert(A span);
    }
}

You would use it like this:

yourTextView.setText(RichTextUtils.replaceAll((Spanned)yourTextView.getText(),
                                             URLSpan.class,
                                             new URLSpanConverter()));

with a custom URLSpanConverter like this:

class URLSpanConverter
      implements
      RichTextUtils.SpanConverter {
    @Override
    public URLSpan convert(URLSpan span) {
      return(new YourCustomClickableSpan(span.getURL()));
    }
  }

to convert all URLSpan objects to YourCustomClickableSpan objects.