Change the text color of a single ClickableSpan when pressed without affecting other ClickableSpans in the same TextView

Question

I have a TextView with multiple ClickableSpans in it. When a ClickableSpan is pressed, I want it to change the color of its text.

I have tried setting a color state

Answer 1

Place the java code as below :

package com.synamegames.orbs;

import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class CustomTouchListener implements View.OnTouchListener {     
public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent motionEvent) {

    switch(motionEvent.getAction()){            
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
         ((TextView) view).setTextColor(0x4F4F4F); 
            break;          
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL:             
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
        ((TextView) view).setTextColor(0xCDCDCD);
            break;
    } 

    return false;   
} 
}

In the above code specify wat color you want .

Change the style .xml as you want.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<style name="MenuFont">
    <item name="android:textSize">20sp</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">#CDCDCD</item>
    <item name="android:textStyle">normal</item>
    <item name="android:clickable">true</item>
    <item name="android:layout_weight">1</item>
    <item name="android:gravity">left|center</item>
    <item name="android:paddingLeft">35dp</item>
    <item name="android:layout_width">175dp</item> 
    <item name="android:layout_height">fill_parent</item>
</style>

Try it out and say is this you want or something else . update me dude.

Answer 2

legr3c's answer helped me a lot. And I'd like to add a few remarks.

Remark #1.

TextView myTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.my_textview);
myTextView.setMovementMethod(new LinkTouchMovementMethod());
myTextView.setHighlightColor(getResources().getColor(android.R.color.transparent));
SpannableString mySpannable = new SpannableString(text);
mySpannable.setSpan(new TouchableSpan(), 0, 7, 0);
mySpannable.setSpan(new TouchableSpan(), 15, 18, 0);
myTextView.setText(mySpannable, BufferType.SPANNABLE);

I applied LinkTouchMovementMethod to a TextView with two spans. The spans were highlighted with blue when clicked them. myTextView.setHighlightColor(getResources().getColor(android.R.color.transparent)); fixed the bug.

Remark #2.

Don't forget to get colors from resources when passing normalTextColor, pressedTextColor, and pressedBackgroundColor.

Should pass resolved color instead of resource id here