Question

I have an EditText view in my Android app. I need “inner links” in it, this means that I need some buttons or span inside EditText and with onClick to this button I can do some actions (not redirect to web page).
I realized this buttons with ClickableSpan() like this

linkWord = "my link";
link = new SpannableString(linkWord);
cs = new ClickableSpan(){
private String w = linkWord;
    @Override
    public void onClick(View widget) {
    wrd.setText(w);
    }
};
link.setSpan(cs, 0, linkWord.length(), 0);
et.append(link);

For make this span clickable I used

et.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

“Inner links” works fine, but after using et.setMovementMethod() copy and paste items are disable on OnLongClick menu. And this is a problem, because I need “links” in EditText and copy text from this view in the same time.

I have idea to set in listener OnLongClickListener something like removeMovementMethod() for temporary disable “links” function and use menu with copy/paste and after coping text switch on setMovementMethod() method again. But I don’t know how to realize this.

Can you help me? You may be there are some another ways…

Thank you!

Answer 1

I solved this problem and may be this will be interesting for someone…

For clickable links inside EditText I used

et.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

in this case in longClick menu there are not copy/paste items.
For activate them I need back to normal EditText state, I can do it with:

et.setMovementMethod(ArrowKeyMovementMethod.getInstance());

After this method links will not work but appear normal longClick menu.

Therefore I added new item to the context menu and switched between this two options:

@Override
public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v, ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {
    if(et.getSelectionStart() == -1){ // in case of setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance())
        menu.add(0, 1, 0, "Enable copy");
    }
    else{
        menu.add(0, 2, 0, "Enable links");
    }
}
@Override
public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
    case 1:
          et.setMovementMethod(ArrowKeyMovementMethod.getInstance());
          et.setSelection(0, 0);
              //re-register EditText for context menu:
          unregisterForContextMenu(et);
          registerForContextMenu(et);
          break;
      case 2:
          et.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
          break;
      }
      return true;
  }

Also I registered EditText for context menu:

registerForContextMenu(et);

Have a hope that this will help someone!