Android Linkify text - Spannable Text in Single Text View - As like Twitter tweet
I have a textView and text like
"This is the Simple Text with KeyWord and the Link to browse"
in the above text i want to make..
clicking on the Link goes to open that URL AND clicking on that KeyWord open a new Activity in my application
also, There is an click event for the Whole TextView even.
Please help me finding a solution. Thank You, MKJParekh
Solution 1:
What you can do is create a Custom ClickableSpan
as below,
class MyCustomSpannable extends ClickableSpan
{
String Url;
public MyCustomSpannable(String Url) {
this.Url = Url;
}
@Override
public void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds) {
// Customize your Text Look if required
ds.setColor(Color.YELLOW);
ds.setFakeBoldText(true);
ds.setStrikeThruText(true);
ds.setTypeface(Typeface.SERIF);
ds.setUnderlineText(true);
ds.setShadowLayer(10, 1, 1, Color.WHITE);
ds.setTextSize(15);
}
@Override
public void onClick(View widget) {
}
public String getUrl() {
return Url;
}
}
And the use its onClick()
for opening an Activity or URL. I am adding a demo for loading a URL in WebView
.
String text = "http://www.google.co.in/";
SpannableStringBuilder stringBuilder = new SpannableStringBuilder(text);
MyCustomSpannable customSpannable = new MyCustomSpannable(
"http://www.google.co.in/"){
@Override
public void onClick(View widget) {
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setData(Uri.parse(customSpannable.getUrl()));
startActivity(intent);
}
};
stringBuilder.setSpan(customSpannable, 0, text.length(),
Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_INCLUSIVE);
textView.setText( stringBuilder, BufferType.SPANNABLE );
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
Solution 2:
Generate your TextView in the following manner:
TextView t3 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text3);
t3.setText(Html.fromHtml("This is the Simple Text with
<a href=\'http://www.google.com\'>Keyword</a> and the
<a href='startActivityFromLink://some_info'>Link</a> to browse"));
t3.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
Specify your activity the following way:
<activity android:name=".TestActivity"
android:label="@string/app_name">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
<intent-filter>
<data android:scheme="startActivityFromLink" />
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
I think it should work. Might require some tweaking. I did not get the time to test it. Let me know if it works.
Solution 3:
I have used the same thing which I answered here in This Question
For that I have used this LinkEnabledTextView and that become easy for me to do the task.