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

one of the @CommonsWare post helps to intercept autolink OnClick event.

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 {
    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.
    }
}

Apply above code simply as below. It will go through all linkable texts and replace click events to above event handler.

fixTextView(textViewContent);

Answer 2

Instead of using a onClickListener, you can try this.

private void addLink() {
        tvLink = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tvInfo2);

        String strURL = UrlLoader.getCodeUrl();

        // Make the url string clicable and take action in its onclick
        SpannableString spanUrl = SpannableString.valueOf(strURL);
        spanUrl.setSpan(new InternalURLSpan(new OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(View v) {

                //Do Some action
            }
        }), 0, spanUrl.length(), Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
        tvLink.setText(spanUrl);

        // We probably also want the user to jump to your link by moving the
        // focus (e.g. using the trackball), which we can do by setting the
        // proper movement method:
        MovementMethod m = tvLink.getMovementMethod();
        if ((m == null) || !(m instanceof LinkMovementMethod)) {
            if (tvLink.getLinksClickable()) {
                tvLink.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
            }
        }
    }

Also in the layout XML file , dont forget to add

<TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:linksClickable="true"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/tvInfo2" android:text="@string/url_link" />

Answer 3

Just adding

textView.setMovementMethod(CustomLinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

to @binary's answer for those whose the method did not work with them