1 Android TextLinkify Sample 2 =================================== 3 4 This sample illustrates how links can be added to a TextView. This can be done either 5 automatically by setting the "autoLink" property or explicitly. 6 7 Introduction 8 ------------ 9 10 This sample demonstrates how clickable links can be added to a `TextView` in Android. 11 12 This can be done in three ways: 13 14 - **Automatically:** Text added to a TextView can automatically be linkified by enabling 15 autoLinking. In XML, use the `android:autoLink` property, programatically call 16 [android.widget.TextView#setAutoLinkMask(int)][1] using an option from 17 [android.text.util.Linkify][2]. 18 - **Parsing a String as HTML:** See [android.text.Html#fromHtml(String)][3]. 19 - **Manually by constructing a [android.text.SpannableString][4]:** Consisting of 20 [android.text.style.StyleSpan][5] and [android.text.style.URLSpan][6] objects that 21 are contained within a [android.text.SpannableString][7]. 22 23 [1]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#setAutoLinkMask(int) 24 [2]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/util/Linkify.html 25 [3]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/Html.html#fromHtml(java.lang.String) 26 [4]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/SpannableString.html 27 [5]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/style/StyleSpan.html 28 [6]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/style/URLSpan.html 29 [7]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/SpannableString.html 30 31 Pre-requisites 32 -------------- 33 34 - Android SDK v21 35 - Android Build Tools v21.1.1 36 - Android Support Repository 37 38 Screenshots 39 ------------- 40 41 <img src="screenshots/main.png" height="400" alt="Screenshot"/> 42 43 Getting Started 44 --------------- 45 46 This sample uses the Gradle build system. To build this project, use the 47 "gradlew build" command or use "Import Project" in Android Studio. 48 49 Support 50 ------- 51 52 - Google+ Community: https://plus.google.com/communities/105153134372062985968 53 - Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android 54 55 If you've found an error in this sample, please file an issue: 56 https://github.com/googlesamples/android-TextLinkify 57 58 Patches are encouraged, and may be submitted by forking this project and 59 submitting a pull request through GitHub. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for more details. 60 61 License 62 ------- 63 64 Copyright 2014 The Android Open Source Project, Inc. 65 66 Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor 67 license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for 68 additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this 69 file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not 70 use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of 71 the License at 72 73 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 74 75 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 76 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT 77 WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the 78 License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under 79 the License. 80