How do I get a string that contains a link in Android?

Question

following problem: I have got a method that generates the result of some computation and returns this result as a string. Now I would like this result to contain a clickable link. How do I do that?

Here is what I have done so far:

This is part of my method that generates the result string:

Spanned link = Html.fromHtml("<a href='http://www.apple.com'>Apple.com</a>");
String result = "Website is: " + link;

Then, in another method that uses the String result I just set the text of the TextView resultText like this:

resultText.setText(result);

The problem is that while the text is displayed the text is not a link and hence not clickable. However, I already set this attribute in XML file of the according TextView:

android:linksClickable="true"

What is wrong here?

Answer 1

You can cut the string according to ' . You can do this trim() or substring() method.Take a look at this link.

Answer 2

See How to make normal links in TextView clickable? question.

<TextView
    ...
    android:autoLink="web"/>

android:autoLink="web" controls whether links such as urls and email addresses are automatically found and converted to clickable links in TextView. Try and see.

Update:

In your original code try

Spanned link = Html.fromHtml("![CDATA[<a href="http://www.apple.com">Apple.com</a>]]");

or

declare a string in string.xml:

<string name="mylinks"><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.apple.com">Apple.com</a>]]></string>

and then

String link = Html.fromHtml(getResources().getString(R.string.mylinks));