Android: ClickableSpan in clickable TextView

Found a workaround that is quite straight forward. Define ClickableSpan on all the text areas that are not part of the links and handle the click on them as if the text view was clicked:

TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textview01);      
Spannable span = Spannable.Factory.getInstance().newSpannable("test link span");   
span.setSpan(new ClickableSpan() {  
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {  
        Log.d("main", "link clicked");
        Toast.makeText(Main.this, "link clicked", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); 
    } }, 5, 9, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

// All the rest will have the same spannable.
ClickableSpan cs = new ClickableSpan() {  
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {  
        Log.d("main", "textview clicked");
        Toast.makeText(Main.this, "textview clicked", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); 
    } };

// set the "test " spannable.
span.setSpan(cs, 0, 5, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

// set the " span" spannable
span.setSpan(cs, 6, span.length(), Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

tv.setText(span);

tv.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

Hope this helps (I know this thread is old, but in case anyone sees it now...).

This is a quite easy solution.. This worked for me

textView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        ClassroomLog.log(TAG, "Textview Click listener ");
        if (textView.getSelectionStart() == -1 && textView.getSelectionEnd() == -1) {
            // do your code here this will only call if its not a hyperlink
        }
    }
});

Matthew suggested subclassing TextView and with that hint a came up with a rather ugly workaround. But it works:

I've created a "ClickPreventableTextView" which I use when I have clickablespans in a TextView that should be clickable as a whole.

In its onTouchEvent method this class calls the onTouchEvent method of MovementMethod before calling onTouchEvent on its base TextView class. So it is guaranted, that the Listener of the clickablespan will be invoked first. And I can prevent invoking the OnClickListener for the whole TextView

/**
 * TextView that allows to insert clickablespans while whole textview is still clickable<br>
 * If a click an a clickablespan occurs, click handler of whole textview will <b>not</b> be invoked
 * In your span onclick handler you first have to check whether {@link ignoreSpannableClick} returns true, if so just return from click handler
 * otherwise call {@link preventNextClick} and handle the click event
 * @author Lukas
 *
 */
public class ClickPreventableTextView extends TextView implements OnClickListener {
private boolean preventClick;
private OnClickListener clickListener;
private boolean ignoreSpannableClick;

public ClickPreventableTextView(Context context) {
    super(context);
}

public ClickPreventableTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
}

public ClickPreventableTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);
}

public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    if (getMovementMethod() != null)
        getMovementMethod().onTouchEvent(this, (Spannable)getText(), event);
    this.ignoreSpannableClick = true;
    boolean ret = super.onTouchEvent(event);
    this.ignoreSpannableClick = false;
    return ret;
}

/**
 * Returns true if click event for a clickable span should be ignored
 * @return true if click event should be ignored
 */
public boolean ignoreSpannableClick() {
    return ignoreSpannableClick;
}

/**
 * Call after handling click event for clickable span
 */
public void preventNextClick() {
    preventClick = true;
}

@Override
public void setOnClickListener(OnClickListener listener) {
    this.clickListener = listener;
    super.setOnClickListener(this);
}

@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
    if (preventClick) {
        preventClick = false;
    } else if (clickListener != null)
        clickListener.onClick(v);
}
}

The listener for the clickable span now looks like that

    span.setSpan(new ClickableSpan() {  
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {  
            Log.d("main", "link clicked");
            if (widget instanceof ClickPreventableTextView) {
                if (((ClickPreventableTextView)widget).ignoreSpannableClick())
                    return;
                ((ClickPreventableTextView)widget).preventNextClick();
            }

            Toast.makeText(Main.this, "link clicked", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); 
        } }, 5, 9, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

For me the main disadvantage is, that now getMovementMethod().onTouchEvent will be called twice (TextView calls that method in it's onTouchEvent method). I don't know if this has any side effects, atm it works as expected.