TextView with link in ANDROID…….

Hi all…….

All of you may be familiar with TextViews in ANDROID.
But how many of you know that we have have html as text in a textView. This post is a simple example to show this.

Create a fresh project and copy this code to the main java file.

package com.coderzheaven;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.text.Html;
import android.text.method.LinkMovementMethod;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class TextViewLinkDemo extends Activity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tv);
        tv.setText( Html.fromHtml("<b>This is a textView with a link </b>  " +
                    " <br /> <a href="http://www.coderzheaven.com">Coderzheaven</a> " +
                    "created in the Java source code using HTML."));
         tv.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
    }
}

The main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    >
<TextView
	android:id="@+id/tv"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/hello"
    />
</LinearLayout>

The AndroidManifest.xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      package="com.coderzheaven"
      android:versionCode="1"
      android:versionName="1.0">
    <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
        <activity android:name=".TextViewLinkDemo"
                  android:label="@string/app_name">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>
</manifest>

Link in TextView Demo