Question

I’ve got a TextView displaying large text in my Android app. The text contains some phone numbers but also some other numbers. The TextView’s autoLink attribute is set to ALL.

At the moment every number that somehow looks like a phone number get’s automatically linked regardless whether it is a phone number or not.

So I wonder if there’s a way to exclude some of the numbers from auto linking within the same TextView?

Answer 1

Don’t use autoLink and instead use Linkify with your own MatchFilter and TransformFilter. You can probably look at the source code to Linkify and look at how they are defining sPhoneNumberTransformFilter and create your own modified version.