Android: Clickable TextView links / buttons

Question

I want to create a TextView on my registration view which notifies about legal terms. So the text is smth. like: "By signing up you accept our privacy policy and terms and conditions."
Privacy Policy aswell as terms and conditions should be clickable and trigger a callback.

Coming from HTML by initial approach was to somehow add a link in there but those seem to be only for the web/browser-app.
So I thought about creating a nested layout containing the text as sepereate text like:

<LinearLayout /* ... */>
  <TextView android:text="By signing up you accept our "/>

  <TextView android:text="privacy policy" 
    android:clickable="true" 
    android:focusable="true" />

  <TextView android:text="and" />

  <TextView android:text="terms and conditions" 
    android:clickable="true" 
    android:focusable="true" />

  <TextView android:text="." />
</LinearLayout>

But this approach seems kinda odd, because I have to create so many elements and an additional layout. Are there any better solutions then my approach?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/22006998/3713967 – Sameer Donga Aug 30 '18 at 07:26 — Sameer Donga, Aug 30 '18 at 07:26

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 30 '18 at 07:36

Set Text on Text View

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("I have read and agree to the " +
        "<a href='app.activity.termsanduse://Kode'>Terms of Use</a>"));

Set Activity in Manifest

<activity
    android:name=".app.activity.TermsAndUse"
    android:screenOrientation="portrait">
    <intent-filter>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
        <data android:scheme="app.activity.termsanduse" />
    </intent-filter>
</activity>

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 30 '18 at 07:38

Define your string/statement in strings.xml(helps with localization as well)

Add this to your strings.xml

<string name="taclink"> By signing up you accept our <![CDATA[ <a href="http://web.com/xyz/Terms.html">Terms</a>]]>
     and <![CDATA[<a href="http://web.com/pqr/Privacy.html">Privacy Policy</a>]]></string>

In your java code set the "taclink" string resource textview,

termsandcondition.setText(Html.fromHtml(resources.getString(com.app.android.R.string.taclink)));

Android: Clickable TextView links / buttons

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