How to get URL from String on Android

Question

I\'d like to extract URL from hi there this is a URL String http://mytest.com.

I tried to use EditText.getURLs but it didn\'t work for me.

Answer 1

Here is the function:

//Pull all links from the body for easy retrieval
private ArrayList pullLinks(String text) {
   ArrayList links = new ArrayList();

   String regex = "\\(?\\b(http://|www[.])[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#/%?=~_()|!:,.;]*[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#/%=~_()|]";
   Pattern p = Pattern.compile(regex);
   Matcher m = p.matcher(text);
   while(m.find()) {
      String urlStr = m.group();
      if (urlStr.startsWith("(") && urlStr.endsWith(")")) {
         urlStr = urlStr.substring(1, urlStr.length() - 1);
      }
      links.add(urlStr);
   }
   return links;
}