Android: html in textview with clickable link

Question

I use a-htmltag in my TextView , but when I click on it, nothing happens.

How can I open a web browser with a url?

Answer 1

Try

 txtTest.setText( Html.fromHtml("<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">Google</a>")); txtTest.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()); 

Remember: do not use android: autoLink = "web" with it. because it calls LinkMovementMethod does not work.

Update for SDK 24 + The Html.fromHtml function has Html.fromHtml deprecated on Android N (SDK v24), so go ahead and use this method:

  String html = "<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">Google</a>"; Spanned result; if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.N) { result = Html.fromHtml(html,Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY); } else { result = Html.fromHtml(html); } txtTest.setText(result) txtTest. setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()); 

Here is a list of flags:

 FROM_HTML_MODE_COMPACT = 63; FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY = 0; FROM_HTML_OPTION_USE_CSS_COLORS = 256; FROM_HTML_SEPARATOR_LINE_BREAK_BLOCKQUOTE = 32; FROM_HTML_SEPARATOR_LINE_BREAK_DIV = 16; FROM_HTML_SEPARATOR_LINE_BREAK_HEADING = 2; FROM_HTML_SEPARATOR_LINE_BREAK_LIST = 8; FROM_HTML_SEPARATOR_LINE_BREAK_LIST_ITEM = 4; FROM_HTML_SEPARATOR_LINE_BREAK_PARAGRAPH = 1; 

Answer 2

You can do it as follows:

 mTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView); String text = "Visit my developer.android.com"; mTextView.setText(text); // pattern we want to match and turn into a clickable link Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("developer.android.com"); // prefix our pattern with http:// Linkify.addLinks(mTextView, pattern, "http://") 

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