How to set the part of the text view is clickable

Question

I have the text \"Android is a Software stack\". In this text i want to set the \"stack\" text is clickable. in the sense if you click on t

Answer 1

Here is a Kotlin method to make parts of a TextView clickable:

private fun makeTextLink(textView: TextView, str: String, underlined: Boolean, color: Int?, action: (() -> Unit)? = null) {
    val spannableString = SpannableString(textView.text)
    val textColor = color ?: textView.currentTextColor
    val clickableSpan = object : ClickableSpan() {
        override fun onClick(textView: View) {
            action?.invoke()
        }
        override fun updateDrawState(drawState: TextPaint) {
            super.updateDrawState(drawState)
            drawState.isUnderlineText = underlined
            drawState.color = textColor
        }
    }
    val index = spannableString.indexOf(str)
    spannableString.setSpan(clickableSpan, index, index + str.length, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE)
    textView.text = spannableString
    textView.movementMethod = LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()
    textView.highlightColor = Color.TRANSPARENT
}

It can be called multiple times to create several links within a TextView:

makeTextLink(myTextView, str, false, Color.RED, action = { Log.d("onClick", "link") })
makeTextLink(myTextView, str1, true, null, action = { Log.d("onClick", "link1") })