Question

I’m populating a TextView with text and phone numbers, like so:

tv.setText("Here is a phone number: 1234567890.  OK?");

That appears fine in my emulator. Now, I want to linkify the phone numbers, so I’ve done the following:

tv.setText("Here is a phone number: 1234567890.  OK?");
tv.setAutoLinkMask(Linkify.PHONE_NUMBERS);

This makes the phone number disappear and I see:

Here is a phone number:           .  OK?

It’s basically showing the phone number but it’s invisible. If I touch the space where the (invisible) phone number is then Android loads up the dialer and dials 1234567890. It’s not that the phone number is white on white — I’ve changed the background to red and it does not appear white on red — it is invisible.

Any clues? Thanks.

Answer 1

Try setting the android:textColorLink attribute on your TextView.