How can I make links in fromHTML clickable? (Android)

Question

This seems like a trivial problem, but is has me kind of stumped. I want to load an HTML string using Html.fromHtml(), and have any links in the string to be clickable and o

Answer 1

String data="MyTest";

textView.setText(data);
textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(data));
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
textView.setLinksClickable(true);

Answer 2

As I assumed, the solution was trivial:

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">This is a link</a>"));
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

The second line somehow activates the link behavior, although I'm not quite sure how. The same question is addressed over at Google Code.

Answer 3

As mentioned in other answers, a way forward is to use:

xtView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">This is a link</a>"));
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

However, this won't work if you have ANY android:autoLink value set, not just 'web' as other comments seem to suggest. So that means you can use this solution to linkify URLs at the expense of having phone, email and maps being disabled/unlinked.

Answer 4

The javadoc of the LinkMovementMethod says that it

Supports clicking on links with DPad Center or Enter.

So it makes sense that works that way.

And confirmed, with 4.2.2 works like charm with just the

textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

Answer 5

It should be this way:

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">This is a link</a>"));
textView.setAutoLinkMask(Linkify.WEB_URLS);
textView.setLinksClickable(true);

in XML should be

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/txtview"
    android:autoLink="web"
    android:linksClickable="true"
    />