How can I make links in fromHTML clickable? (Android)
As I assumed, the solution was trivial:
textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">This is a link</a>"));textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());The second line somehow activates the link behavior, although I'm not quite sure how. The same question is addressed over at Google Code.
As mentioned in other answers, a way forward is to use:
xtView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">This is a link</a>"));textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());However, this won't work if you have ANY android:autoLink value set, not just 'web' as other comments seem to suggest. So that means you can use this solution to linkify URLs at the expense of having phone, email and maps being disabled/unlinked.