android: Set link with <a href> in TextView

I finally got it working using the following code :

TextView tv1 = new TextView(this);
tv1.setLayoutParams(textOutLayoutParams);
tv1.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href=\""+ l.getRightString() + "\">" + l.getLeftString() + "</a>"));
tv1.setClickable(true);
tv1.setMovementMethod (LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
dialogLayout.addView(tv1);

l.getRightString() - contains a url like http:\www.google.com l.getLeftString() - contains text for the url like "Go to Google"

RESULTS : Text "Go to Google" on my dialog with blue color and underlined, and on clicking it the browser opens up and shwows the respective page. On returning/Exiting the browser it again comes to the app from the state where it had left.

Hope this helps.

Save your html in a string

<string name="link">&lt;a href="http://www.google.com">Google&lt;/a></string>

Set textview ID to to

textViewLinkable

In main activity use following code:

((TextView) findViewById(R.id.textViewLinkable)).setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
((TextView) findViewById(R.id.textViewLinkable)).setText(Html.fromHtml(getResources().getString(R.string.link)));