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POGet the value of link text when clicked in a textview in android
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copied!<p>I have a <strong>TextView</strong>. I have added custom links like <strong>"@abc"</strong>, <strong>"#android"</strong> by matching some regex pattern. The links are displaying properly. However I am not getting a way to extract the text of the link which is clicked. I am using <strong>SpannableString</strong> to setText to the textview. I then set spans using my custom <strong>ClickableSpan</strong>. It works fine. Plus I can also catch the onclick event. But the <strong>onClick</strong>() method has a View paramter. If I call <strong>getText()</strong> on the View (ofcourse after typecasting it to TextView), it returns the entire text. I searched a lot but always found ways to add links and catch the event, but none told about getting the text of the link.</p> <p>This is the code I am using to add links and recieve onclick. I got the code from one of the SO threads..</p> <pre><code>Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("@[\\w]+"); Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(tv.getText());//tv is my TextView while (matcher.find()) { int x = matcher.start(); int y = matcher.end(); final android.text.SpannableString f = new android.text.SpannableString( tv.getText()); f.setSpan(new InternalURLSpan(new View.OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v) { showDialog(1); } }), x, y, android.text.Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE); tv.setText(f); tv.setLinkTextColor(Color.rgb(19, 111, 154)); tv.setLinksClickable(true); </code></pre> <p>Here is the InternalURLSpan:</p> <pre><code>class InternalURLSpan extends android.text.style.ClickableSpan { View.OnClickListener mListener; public InternalURLSpan(View.OnClickListener listener) { mListener = listener; } @Override public void onClick(View widget) { mListener.onClick(widget); TextView tv = (TextView) widget; System.out.println("tv.gettext() :: " + tv.getText()); Toast.makeText(MyActivity.this,tv.getText(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } } </code></pre> <p>Is it possible to get the text of the link clicked? If not, is there a way of associating some data to a particular link and knowing which link gets clicked? Any pointers.</p> <p>Thanks</p>

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