android: Set link with <a href> in TextView
android, html, hyperlink, textview
Solution
I finally got it working using the following code :
TextView tv1 = new TextView(this);
tv1.setLayoutParams(textOutLayoutParams);
tv1.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href=\""+ l.getRightString() + "\">" + l.getLeftString() + "</a>"));
tv1.setClickable(true);
tv1.setMovementMethod (LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
dialogLayout.addView(tv1);
l.getRightString() - contains a url like http:\www.google.com l.getLeftString() - contains text for the url like "Go to Google"
RESULTS : Text "Go to Google" on my dialog with blue color and underlined, and on clicking it the browser opens up and shwows the respective page. On returning/Exiting the browser it again comes to the app from the state where it had left.
Hope this helps.
Problem
I create a TextView dynamically and want to set the text as linkable. Text value is "Google". I referred to internet & blogs like this, which shows the same way, but I couldn't produce the expected results. I tried different ways, but the output I see is the whole text with text only. The code I have tried with is : ``` TextView tv1 = new TextView(this); tv1.setLayoutParams(textOutLayoutParams); // Make Linkable tv1.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()); tv1.setText(Html.fromHtml(l.getLeftString())); /*SpannableString s = new SpannableString(l.getLeftString()); Linkify.addLinks(s, Linkify.WEB_URLS); tv1.setText(s); tv1.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()); */ dialogLayout.addView(tv1); ``` In my output I see "Google" and no link. I also tried Clean project & building it again, but no success. I am looking to see only "Google" as underlined with blue color (as default) and on clicking Google, the browser open with http://google.com. What is lacking in my code to get the output ? BTW For REF : I use 64bit Win 7, Java, Eclipse, Android API 8-2.2 Any help is highly appreciated.