How can I make links in an EditText clickable?

Question

I have an EditText on Android I\'d for which I\'d like any embedded urls to be clickable. I used the Linkify class, which has turned them blue and unde

Answer 1

For edit text I managed to get links clickable on the following way. First i implemented a Custom MovementMethod as describe here

Java

(Create your edit text from xml or context)

editText.setLinksClickable(true);
editText.setAutoLinkMask(Linkify.WEB_URLS);
editText.setMovementMethod(CustomMovementMethod.getInstance());
//If the edit text contains previous text with potential links
Linkify.addLinks(editText, Linkify.WEB_URLS);

Then to manage that the urls look like links while the user types

editText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
        @Override
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {

        }

        @Override
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {


        }

        @Override
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {

                Linkify.addLinks(s, Linkify.WEB_URLS);

        }
    });