Saturday 8 December 2012

TextView to Hyperlink in Android












Linkfy class is used to generate hyperlinks in android so we must import it.

 Following steps are required to create a hyperlink.


1.We first create a SpannableString.


 Textview textview;   /*use  findViewById() to add a text view from XML*/


 SpannableString str = SpannableString.valueOf(/*charsequence  that you want work as hyperlink*/);


2.set it to a "blank" URL.


 str.setSpan(new URLSpan(""), 0, entryValue.length(),Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);  /*blankURL*/


 textview.append(str) /*append string with textview*/




3.Then add a click listener to intercept the click.


  textview.tv.setOnClickListener(/*do anything u want, like:-snd msg to a prticular hyperlink number,make http connection,show something etc;



This looked like a normal hyperlink.But we do some more things in the listener when the link was clicked.

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