Question

I wanted to display the latest tweets in a Listview with the same pattern the way twitter displays it. check here #tags @username and Urls to be dynamic within the tweet.
How can i achieve this with wherever in the tweet the # or @ or url may appear.

Answer 1

use below method to linkify the twitter and web url. Note call below method after setting the text.

 /**
         * set twitter and web hyper link
         */
        public static void setHiyerLink(TextView textView)
        {
            //for twitter hyper link
            Pattern wikiWordMatcher = Pattern.compile("(@[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)");
            String wikiViewURL =    "http://www.twitter.com/";
            Linkify.addLinks(textView, wikiWordMatcher, wikiViewURL);


            Pattern hashtagPattern = Pattern.compile("#([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)");
            String hashtagScheme = "http://www.twitter.com/search/";
            Linkify.addLinks(textView, hashtagPattern, hashtagScheme);


            Pattern wikiWordMatcher1 = Pattern.compile("\\b(https?|ftp|file)://[-a-zA-Z0-9+&@#/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-a-zA-Z0-9+&@#/%=~_|]");
            Linkify.addLinks(textView, wikiWordMatcher1, null);
        }

you need to add attributes android:linksClickable="true" for TextView in xml