Linkify links in textview and let user select which program open links instead of internal browser

Question

I have a TextView that applied Linkify to that to create my links.

Linkify.addLinks(mTextView, Linkify.ALL);

Now when users click on links, apps open links in native browser. But i want to users have this option to select their favorite browser by showing "Complete action using" dialog.

How can add this feature to linkified links?

You would have to replace the generated `URLSpan` objects with your own replacement that uses `Intent.createChooser()` to force a chooser. — CommonsWare, Oct 09 '14 at 20:31

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 15 '14 at 03:32

You can use the ClickableSpan, and set the textview with it

public class LinkSpan extends ClickableSpan {

  private OnClickListener listener;

  public LinkSpan(OnClickListener listener){
    this.listener = listener;
  }

  @Override
  public void onClick(View widget) {
    listener.onClick(widget);
  }
}

public class LinkifyUtil {

  private Activity activity;

  public LinkifyUtil(Activity activity){
    this.activity = activity; 
  }

  public void addAutoChooserLink(final Intent intent,TextView text){
    String source = text.getText().toString();
    String pattern = "Android";
    Pattern p = Pattern.compile(pattern);
    Matcher m = p.matcher(source);
    SpannableString s = new SpannableString(source);
    while(m.find()){
      s.setSpan(new LinkSpan(new OnClickListener(){

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
          //you can define the intent
          intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
          intent.setData(Uri.parse("http://developer.android.com"));
          Intent.createChooser(intent, "Choose App");
          activity.startActivity(intent);
        }
      }), m.start(), m.start()+pattern.length(), Spanned.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
    }
    text.setText(s);
    text.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
  }  
}

You can use the LinkifyUtil like this:

Intent intent = new Intent();       
LinkifyUtil linkify = new LinkifyUtil(this);
linkify.addAutoChooserLink(intent, text);

Linkify links in textview and let user select which program open links instead of internal browser

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