java - Multiple Clickable links in TextView on Android

Question

I'm trying to add multiple links in a textview similar to what Google & Flipboard has done below with their Terms and conditions AND Privacy Policy shown in the screen shot below:

So far I've stumbled on using this approach

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(myHtml); textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

where myHtml is a href.

But it doesn't give me control I need e.g to launch a fragment etc.

Any idea how they achieve this in the two examples below?

Answer 1

I think that I'm a little late to share this, but I have achieved the same using SpannableStringBuilder.

Simply initialize the TextView that you want to add 2 or more listeners and then pass that to the following method that I have created:

private void customTextView(TextView view) {
        SpannableStringBuilder spanTxt = new SpannableStringBuilder(
                "I agree to the ");
        spanTxt.append("Term of services");
        spanTxt.setSpan(new ClickableSpan() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View widget) {
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Terms of services Clicked",
                        Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        }, spanTxt.length() - "Term of services".length(), spanTxt.length(), 0);
        spanTxt.append(" and");
        spanTxt.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.BLACK), 32, spanTxt.length(), 0);
        spanTxt.append(" Privacy Policy");
        spanTxt.setSpan(new ClickableSpan() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View widget) {
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Privacy Policy Clicked",
                        Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        }, spanTxt.length() - " Privacy Policy".length(), spanTxt.length(), 0);
        view.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
        view.setText(spanTxt, BufferType.SPANNABLE);
    } 

And in your XML, use android:textColorLink to add custom link color of your choice. Like this:

   <TextView
     android:id="@+id/textView1"
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:text="TextView"
     android:textColorLink="#C36241" />  //#C36241 - Rust

And this looks like this:

Hope it helps someone. :)