How to make normal links in TextView clickable?

android, hyperlink, textview

Solution

Try and include the following in the `TextView` definition in XML file:

<TextView
    ...
    android:autoLink="web"/>

The docs of android:autoLink say:

Controls whether links such as urls and email addresses are automatically found and converted to clickable links

So for automatically finding links, the above may help. Try and see.

Problem

In my Android app, I have a `TextView`. The text can contain links. This is an example of a text: `This is just a test. Click the following link http://www.google.com to visit Google.` Note that the text is not in HTML; it will be just a regular text. I want to do something like `textView.parseLinks()`, then in the `TextView`, `http://www.google.com` will be hyper-linked and clickable to open up the page. Is this possible? Thanks

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