Question

I am trying to make my TextView clickable.
I have set setMovementMethod() with LinkMovementMethod.

myText.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

But when I set myText value to ‘cnn.com/money’ or ‘www.cnn.com/money’.Both are not clickable.
How can I make the text clickable (i.e. go to web browser for the link)?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Use Linkify:

myText.setAutoLinkMask(0)
Linkify.addLinks(myText, Linkify.ALL);

If you just wanted to have weblinks in your textview be picked up, (ie not email addresses or phone numbers), then do:

Linkify.addLinks(myText, Linkify.WEB_URLS);

See here for more cool stuff you can do with linkify.