How can I make links in an EditText clickable?

Question

I have an EditText on Android I'd for which I'd like any embedded urls to be clickable. I used the Linkify class, which has turned them blue and underlined them. However, I can't figure out how to actually make them clickable.

Thanks!

Answer 1

XML:

 android:linksClickable="true"
 android:autoLink="web|email"

JAVA:

TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textViewId);
textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(html));
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

Answer 2

For edit text I managed to get links clickable on the following way. First i implemented a Custom MovementMethod as describe here

Java

(Create your edit text from xml or context)

editText.setLinksClickable(true);
editText.setAutoLinkMask(Linkify.WEB_URLS);
editText.setMovementMethod(CustomMovementMethod.getInstance());
//If the edit text contains previous text with potential links
Linkify.addLinks(editText, Linkify.WEB_URLS);

Then to manage that the urls look like links while the user types

editText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
        @Override
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {

        }

        @Override
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {


        }

        @Override
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {

                Linkify.addLinks(s, Linkify.WEB_URLS);

        }
    });

Answer 3

XML:-- Write it in your edittext

android:autoLink="web" android:inputType="textWebEditText"

Answer 4

Hope this will help someone

val message: String = String.format(
        getString(R.string.message_content),
        firstNameEditText.text,
        lastNameEditText.text,
        dateTextView.text,
        timeTextView.text
    )

    val gMapURL = getString(R.string.google_map_location)

    // Setup my Spannable with clickable URLs
    val spannable: Spannable = SpannableString(gMapURL)
    Linkify.addLinks(spannable, Linkify.WEB_URLS)

    // Append a zero-width space to the Spannable
    val gText = TextUtils.concat(spannable, "\u200B")

    val finalText = TextUtils.concat(message, gText)
    messageContentEditText.setText(finalText)