android - How to make normal links in TextView clickable?

Question

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

Answer 1

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.