How to create TextView that will act as a link

Question

I have a Textview with location:

eg. \"Mountain View, CA\"

What I want to achieve is to create this text to act like a Link - color,underline, f

Answer 1

there is a example in ApiDemos which can solve your problem. Check out com.example.android.apis.text.Link class, it may help. Following is part of the code:

TextView t3 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text3);
t3.setText(
        Html.fromHtml(
            "text3:  Text with a " +
            "link " +
            "created in the Java source code using HTML."));
t3.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());