Simple Linkable Text

Simple way to create link text, such as @username or #hashtag, in Android TextView and EditText

Installation

Gradle

Add dependency

compile 'com.apradanas.simplelinkabletext:library:1.0.3@aar'

Features

Match single strings or regex pattern to set links
Change the color of the linked text
Set the style of the linked text: BOLD, ITALIC, or BOLD_ITALIC
Set the underlined of the linked text
Specify click actions of a specific word
OnTextChangedListener listener for LinkableEditText

Usage

In your XML layout

LinkableTextView

<com.apradanas.simplelinkabletext.LinkableTextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

LinkableEditText

<com.apradanas.simplelinkabletext.LinkableEditText
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

In your Activity / Fragment

/*
**	define rules
*/

// find hashtags
Link linkHashtag = new Link(Pattern.compile("(#\\w+)"))
                	.setUnderlined(true)
                	.setTextStyle(TextStyle.ITALIC)
                	.setClickListener(new Link.OnClickListener() {
                    	@Override
                    	public void onClick(String text) {
                       		// do something
                    	}
                	});

// find username
Link linkUsername = new Link(Pattern.compile("(@\\w+)"))
                	.setUnderlined(false)
                	.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#D00000"))
                	.setTextStyle(TextStyle.BOLD)
                	.setClickListener(new Link.OnClickListener() {
                   		@Override
                    	public void onClick(String text) {
                       		// do something
                    	}
                	});

// match string "string"
Link linkAnd = new Link("string")
               		.setTextColor(Color.BLUE)
               		.setTextStyle(TextStyle.BOLD_ITALIC)
                	.setClickListener(new Link.OnClickListener() {
                   		@Override
                    	public void onClick(String text) {
                       		// do something
                    	}
                	});

List<Link> links = new ArrayList<>();
links.add(linkHashtag);
links.add(linkUsername);
links.add(linkAnd);

/*
**	add rules to LinkableTextView
**	then build()
*/
LinkableTextView textView = (LinkableTextView) findViewById(R.id.textView);
textView.setText("#test #LinkableTextView: detecting #hashtags and @username")
		.addLinks(links)
		.build();

/*
**	add rules to LinkableEditText
**	no need to build()
*/
LinkableEditText editText = (LinkableEditText) findViewById(R.id.editText);
editText.addLinks(links);

License

Copyright 2015 Aditya Pradana Sugiarto

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

License

apradanas/simple-linkable-text

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