How can I get clickable hyperlinks in AlertDialog from a string resource?
I didn't really like the currently most popular answer because it significantly changes the formatting of the message in the dialog.
Here's a solution that will linkify your dialog text without otherwise changing the text styling:
// Linkify the message
final SpannableString s = new SpannableString(msg); // msg should have url to enable clicking
Linkify.addLinks(s, Linkify.ALL);
final AlertDialog d = new AlertDialog.Builder(activity)
.setPositiveButton(android.R.string.ok, null)
.setIcon(R.drawable.icon)
.setMessage( s )
.create();
d.show();
// Make the textview clickable. Must be called after show()
((TextView)d.findViewById(android.R.id.message)).setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
If you are only showing some text and URL[s] in your dialog perhaps the solution is simpler
public static class MyOtherAlertDialog {
public static AlertDialog create(Context context) {
final TextView message = new TextView(context);
// i.e.: R.string.dialog_message =>
// "Test this dialog following the link to dtmilano.blogspot.com"
final SpannableString s =
new SpannableString(context.getText(R.string.dialog_message));
Linkify.addLinks(s, Linkify.WEB_URLS);
message.setText(s);
message.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
return new AlertDialog.Builder(context)
.setTitle(R.string.dialog_title)
.setCancelable(true)
.setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_dialog_info)
.setPositiveButton(R.string.dialog_action_dismiss, null)
.setView(message)
.create();
}
}
As shown here http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/up29wTQeK_zuz-LLvre9wQ?feat=directlink
This should make <a href>
tags to get highlighted as well. Please note that i have just added a few lines to emmby's code. so credit to him
final AlertDialog d = new AlertDialog.Builder(this)
.setPositiveButton(android.R.string.ok, null)
.setIcon(R.drawable.icon)
.setMessage(Html.fromHtml("<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">Check this link out</a>"))
.create();
d.show();
// Make the textview clickable. Must be called after show()
((TextView)d.findViewById(android.R.id.message)).setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());