How to process textview for HTML and Linkify

Question

I am trying to get a textview to process a hyperlink as well as phone numbers. Say my text is:

"555-555-555, www.google.com, <a href="www.google.com">Google!</a>"

If I run Html.fromHtml() on this string, then the TextView shows Google! correctly as a clickable link but not the other two.

If I run Linkify.addLinks(TextView, Linkify.All) on the TextView, then the first two are correctly recognized as a phone number and url, but the html is not processed in the last one.

If I run both of them, then either one or the other is honored, but not both at the same time. (Html.fromHtml will remove the html tags there, but it won't be a link if linkify is called after)

Any ideas on how to get both of these functions to work simultaneously? So all the links are processed correctly? Thanks!

Edit: Also, the text is changed dynamically so I'm not sure how I would be able to go about setting up a Linkify pattern for that.

Did you try running `Linkify.addlinks()`, and then `Html.fromHtml()`? It should work. — tolgap, Oct 30 '12 at 16:09
Yeah, I've tried all combinations. If I do that order then the HTML link works correctly but none of the other links that Linkify is supposed to process will work correctly. — user1132897, Oct 30 '12 at 16:10

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 19 '13 at 21:04

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It's because Html.fromHtml and Linkify.addLinks removes previous spans before processing the text.

Use this code to get it work:

public static Spannable linkifyHtml(String html, int linkifyMask) {
    Spanned text = Html.fromHtml(html);
    URLSpan[] currentSpans = text.getSpans(0, text.length(), URLSpan.class);

    SpannableString buffer = new SpannableString(text);
    Linkify.addLinks(buffer, linkifyMask);

    for (URLSpan span : currentSpans) {
        int end = text.getSpanEnd(span);
        int start = text.getSpanStart(span);
        buffer.setSpan(span, start, end, 0);
    }
    return buffer;
}

answered Jun 19 '13 at 21:04

gmazzo

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This method renders links unclickable – Ravi Apr 22 '14 at 17:25
You also need to set: textView.setLinksClickable(true); textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()); Or your links are dead. – Steffen Vangsgaard Aug 15 '16 at 12:03

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 30 '12 at 23:13

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try to set movement method on your textview instead of using Linkify:

textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

answered Oct 30 '12 at 23:13

Tomas Vondracek

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setMovementMethod() controls what happens when you click on a link. So, I have this in place to ensure that my HTML link will open the browser. However, it does not actually deal with how a link is identified as a link. – user1132897 Oct 31 '12 at 14:29

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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In your TextView's xml layout, you should add the following:

android:autoLink="all"
android:linksClickable="true"

Then you should remove your Linkify code in Java.

It works somehow, but I dont know why. I added a question to see if someone can explain the behavior: Using Linkify.addLinks combine with Html.fromHtml

edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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answered Jan 26 '13 at 15:01

wnafee

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How to process textview for HTML and Linkify

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