How do I make a portion of a Checkbox's text clickable?

You may want only part of the text to be a clickable link, while the rest of the checkbox behaves as usual, i.e. you can click the other text to toggle the state.

You can set up your checkbox like so:

CheckBox checkBox = (CheckBox) findViewById(R.id.my_check_box);ClickableSpan clickableSpan = new ClickableSpan() {    @Override    public void onClick(View widget) {        // Prevent CheckBox state from being toggled when link is clicked        widget.cancelPendingInputEvents();        // Do action for link text...    }    @Override    public void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds) {        super.updateDrawState(ds);        // Show links with underlines (optional)        ds.setUnderlineText(true);    }};SpannableString linkText = new SpannableString("Link text");linkText.setSpan(clickableSpan, 0, linkText.length(), Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);CharSequence cs = TextUtils.expandTemplate(    "CheckBox text with link: ^1 , and after link", linkText);checkBox.setText(cs);// Finally, make links clickablecheckBox.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

The following code worked for me on KitKat. I am yet to test on below versions of Android.

String checkBoxText = "I agree to all the <a href='http://www.redbus.in/mob/mTerms.aspx' > Terms and Conditions</a>";checkBoxView.setText(Html.fromHtml(checkBoxText));checkBoxView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

There actually is an elegant solution, using CheckBox and single TextView. Along with a combinations of TextView.setClickable(), Intent Filter, and TextView.setMovementMethod().

You have main view (here, I called it ClickableTextViewExample):

package id.web.freelancer.example;import android.app.Activity;import android.os.Bundle;import android.text.Html;import android.text.method.LinkMovementMethod;import android.widget.CheckBox;import android.widget.TextView;public class ClickableTextViewExampleActivity extends Activity {    /** Called when the activity is first created. */    @Override    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);        setContentView(R.layout.main);        CheckBox checkbox = (CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.checkBox1);        TextView textView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView2);        checkbox.setText("");        textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("I have read and agree to the " +                "<a href='id.web.freelancer.example.TCActivity://Kode'>TERMS AND CONDITIONS</a>"));        textView.setClickable(true);        textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());    }}

main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"    android:layout_width="fill_parent"    android:layout_height="fill_parent"    android:orientation="vertical" >    <LinearLayout        android:id="@+id/linearLayout1"        android:layout_width="match_parent"        android:layout_height="wrap_content" >        <CheckBox            android:id="@+id/checkBox1"            android:layout_width="wrap_content"            android:layout_height="wrap_content"            android:text="CheckBox" />        <TextView            android:id="@+id/textView2"            android:layout_width="wrap_content"            android:layout_height="wrap_content"            android:text="TextView"            android:clickable="true" />    </LinearLayout></LinearLayout>

TCActivity.java

package id.web.freelancer.example;import android.app.Activity;import android.os.Bundle;public class TCActivity extends Activity {    @Override    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);        setContentView(R.layout.tc);    }}

tc.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"    android:layout_width="match_parent"    android:layout_height="match_parent"    android:orientation="vertical" >        <TextView        android:id="@+id/tcView"        android:layout_width="wrap_content"        android:layout_height="wrap_content"        android:text="Terms and conditions" /></LinearLayout>

and the final piece of codes that glue it all, the AndroidManifest.xml:

<activity android:name="TCActivity">    <intent-filter>        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />    <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />    <data android:scheme="id.web.freelancer.example.TCActivity" />      </intent-filter>            </activity>

Here comes, the explanations:

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("I have read and agree to the " +                     "<a href='id.web.freelancer.example.TCActivity://Kode'>TERMS AND CONDITIONS</a>"));textView.setClickable(true);textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

setClickable will allow you to click on textView. But not the HREF link. To do that, you will have to use setMovementMethod() and set it to LinkMovementMethod.

After that, you need to catch the URL. I did this using intent-filter in AndroidManifest.xml

<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" /><data android:scheme="id.web.freelancer.example.TCActivity" />  

It catch VIEW command and it only filter URL starting with id.web.freelancer.example.TCActivity://

Here's the package for you to try it out and here's the github repository. Hope this helped