Hyperlink in a Text View

Now we will learn to embed Hyperlinks in a TextView.

First make a text view in the layout file.

<TextView

        android:id="@+id/tv"

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:text="@string/link1" />

Now open the "strings.xml" file under the "values" folder. And add the following code to it.

<string name="link1"><![CDATA[This is Link to <a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a>]]></string>

Finally make changes in the activity file.

package com.codingredefined.linkinatextview;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.text.Html;
import android.text.method.LinkMovementMethod;
import android.text.util.Linkify;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class MainActivity extends Activity
{

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

TextView tv=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.tv);
tv.setText(Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.link1)));
Linkify.addLinks(tv, Linkify.ALL);
tv.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
}

}

The following output will be obtained.

Clicking on Google will automatically open google.com in your default browser.