How to create a hyperlink in Flutter widget?

Question

I would like to create a hyperlink to display in my Flutter app.

The hyper link should be embedded in a Text or similar text views like:

Answer 1

You can wrap your Text in GestureDetector and handle click in onTap().

GestureDetector(
  child: Text("Click here", style: TextStyle(decoration: TextDecoration.underline, color: Colors.blue)),
  onTap: () {
    // do what you need to do when "Click here" gets clicked
  }
)

Answer 2

If you want to make it look even more like a link, you can add underline:

new Text("Hello Flutter!", style: new TextStyle(color: Colors.blue, decoration: TextDecoration.underline),)

and the result:

Answer 3

An alternative (or not) way to put clickable links in your app (for me it just worked that way):

1 - Add the url_launcher package in your pubspec.yaml file

(the package version 5.0 didn't work well for me, so I'm using the 4.2.0+3).

dependencies:
  flutter:
    sdk: flutter
  url_launcher: ^4.2.0+3

2 - Import it and use as below.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:url_launcher/url_launcher.dart';

void main() {
  runApp(MaterialApp(
    title: 'Navigation Basics',
    home: MyUrl(),
  ));
}

class MyUrl extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
        title: Text('Url Launcher'),
      ),
      body: Center(
        child: FlatButton(
          onPressed: _launchURL,
          child: Text('Launch Google!',
              style: TextStyle(fontSize: 17.0)),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }

  _launchURL() async {
    const url = 'https://google.com.br';
    if (await canLaunch(url)) {
      await launch(url);
    } else {
      throw 'Could not launch $url';
    }
  }
}

Answer 4

Flutter doesn't have built-in hyperlink support but you can fake it yourself. There's an example in the Gallery's drawer.dart. They use a RichText widget containing a coloured TextSpan, which has a recognizer attribute to handle taps:

        RichText(
          text: TextSpan(
            children: [
              TextSpan(
                style: bodyTextStyle,
                text: seeSourceFirst,
              ),
              TextSpan(
                style: bodyTextStyle.copyWith(
                  color: colorScheme.primary,
                ),
                text: repoText,
                recognizer: TapGestureRecognizer()
                  ..onTap = () async {
                    final url = 'https://github.com/flutter/gallery/';
                    if (await canLaunch(url)) {
                      await launch(
                        url,
                        forceSafariVC: false,
                      );
                    }
                  },
              ),
              TextSpan(
                style: bodyTextStyle,
                text: seeSourceSecond,
              ),
            ],
          ),

Answer 5

You can use package flutter_linkify
https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_linkify
Just want to provide another option.
Package will divide your text and highlight http/https automatically
Combine plugin url_launcher you can launch url
You can check example below:

full code below

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:flutter_linkify/flutter_linkify.dart';
import 'dart:async';

import 'package:url_launcher/url_launcher.dart';

void main() => runApp(new LinkifyExample());

class LinkifyExample extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new MaterialApp(
      title: 'flutter_linkify example',
      home: Scaffold(
        appBar: AppBar(
          title: Text('flutter_linkify example'),
        ),
        body: Center(
          child: Linkify(
            onOpen: _onOpen,
            text: "Made by https://cretezy.com \n\nMail: example@gmail.com \n\n  this is test http://pub.dev/ ",
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }

  Future<void> _onOpen(LinkableElement link) async {
    if (await canLaunch(link.url)) {
      await launch(link.url);
    } else {
      throw 'Could not launch $link';
    }
  }
}

Answer 6

You can use Link Text https://pub.dev/packages/link_text and use it like

 final String _text = 'Lorem ipsum https://flutter.dev\nhttps://pub.dev'; 
 @override
 Widget build(BuildContext context) {
 return Scaffold(
     body: Center(
      child: LinkText(
        text: _text,
        textAlign: TextAlign.center,
      ),
    ),
  );
}