TextView#setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()) is breaking link display

Question

I have a TextView that I am populating with a Spannable made from some HTML.

This code:

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(textContent, mImageGetter, null));

displays links, but they aren't clickable. This code:

text.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(textContent, mImageGetter, null));

doesn't display the links. The TextView is specified in the XML as

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/text"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@+id/another_textview"
    android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
    android:autoLink="web"
    android:textColorLink="@color/link_color_unpressed"
    android:textColor="#ffffff"
    android:textSize="18sp" />

Why does LinkMovementMethod, a method that exists entirely to make links in a TextView clickable, stop links from displaying?

Answer 1

The culprit was the auto-link method:

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

Removing this line fixed the problem.