How to set the part of the text view is clickable

I have the text "Android is a Software stack". In this text i want to set the "stack" text is clickable. in the sense if you click on that it will redirected to a new activity(not in the browser).

I tried but i am not getting.

Solution 1:

android.text.style.ClickableSpan can solve your problem.

SpannableString ss = new SpannableString("Android is a Software stack");
ClickableSpan clickableSpan = new ClickableSpan() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View textView) {
        startActivity(new Intent(MyActivity.this, NextActivity.class));
    }
    @Override
    public void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds) {
        super.updateDrawState(ds);
        ds.setUnderlineText(false);
    }
};
ss.setSpan(clickableSpan, 22, 27, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.hello);
textView.setText(ss);
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
textView.setHighlightColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);

In XML:

<TextView 
  ...
  android:textColorLink="@drawable/your_selector"
/>

Solution 2:

My function for make multiple links inside TextView
Update 2020: Now this function able to support multiple same texts link inside 1 TextView, but remember to put the link in the correct order

fun TextView.makeLinks(vararg links: Pair<String, View.OnClickListener>) {
    val spannableString = SpannableString(this.text)
    var startIndexOfLink = -1
    for (link in links) {
        val clickableSpan = object : ClickableSpan() {
            override fun updateDrawState(textPaint: TextPaint) {
                // use this to change the link color
                textPaint.color = textPaint.linkColor
                // toggle below value to enable/disable
                // the underline shown below the clickable text
                textPaint.isUnderlineText = true
            }

            override fun onClick(view: View) {
                Selection.setSelection((view as TextView).text as Spannable, 0)
                view.invalidate()
                link.second.onClick(view)
            }
        }
        startIndexOfLink = this.text.toString().indexOf(link.first, startIndexOfLink + 1)
//      if(startIndexOfLink == -1) continue // todo if you want to verify your texts contains links text
        spannableString.setSpan(
            clickableSpan, startIndexOfLink, startIndexOfLink + link.first.length,
            Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE
        )
    }
    this.movementMethod =
        LinkMovementMethod.getInstance() // without LinkMovementMethod, link can not click
    this.setText(spannableString, TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE)
}

USING

my_text_view.makeLinks(
        Pair("Terms of Service", View.OnClickListener {
            Toast.makeText(applicationContext, "Terms of Service Clicked", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
        }),
        Pair("Privacy Policy", View.OnClickListener {
            Toast.makeText(applicationContext, "Privacy Policy Clicked", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
        }))

XML

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/my_text_view"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Please accept Terms of Service and Privacy Policy"
    android:textColorHighlight="#f00" // background color when pressed
    android:textColorLink="#0f0"
    android:textSize="20sp" />

DEMO

Reference

Solution for clear the link highlight selection follow https://stackoverflow.com/a/19445108/5381331

Solution 3:

You can use ClickableSpan as described in this post

Sample code:

TextView myTextView = new TextView(this);
String myString = "Some text [clickable]";
int i1 = myString.indexOf("[");
int i2 = myString.indexOf("]");
myTextView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
myTextView.setText(myString, BufferType.SPANNABLE);
Spannable mySpannable = (Spannable)myTextView.getText();
ClickableSpan myClickableSpan = new ClickableSpan() {
   @Override
   public void onClick(View widget) { /* do something */ }
};
mySpannable.setSpan(myClickableSpan, i1, i2 + 1, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

Reference