How to add email link to layout xml, Android

Question

I have an xml file I use to show the About AlertDialog in my App. I was able to have an area of text from a text resource, and an image to the right of the text. Now I need to add the support email and possible home website address to the text. But I need it to be clickable. So clicking on the email will send an email and clicking on the website will open the browser. How do I add those linked text?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:weightSum="1" android:orientation="horizontal" android:baselineAligned="true">
    <TextView android:text="@string/AboutString" android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" android:id="@+id/textView1" android:layout_height="173dp" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" android:drawableRight="@drawable/explain"></TextView>
</LinearLayout>

EDIT: The solution I chose:

                View layout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.about, null);
                Pattern p = Pattern.compile("[email protected]");
                String Scheme = "mailto:[email protected]";
                Linkify.addLinks((TextView)layout.findViewById(R.id.textView1), p, Scheme);

Solution 1

You need to linkify your text. Here is an example from that article showing how to add links when a WikiWord is found:

Pattern wikiWordMatcher = Pattern.compile("\\b[A-Z]+[a-z0-9]+[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9]+\\b");
String wikiViewURL =    "content://com.google.android.wikinotes.db.wikinotes/wikinotes/";
Linkify.addLinks(noteView, wikiWordMatcher, wikiViewURL);

Solution 2

You need something like this shameless plug: https://github.com/ariefbayu/Clickable-URL-TextView-Example

Basically, you would set your TextView into:

<TextView
  android:id="@+id/textView2"
  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:text="TextView"
  android:clickable="true" />

on onCreate:

html.append("<a href='lauch.TCActivity://[email protected]&subject=email subject&body=this is email body'>Email</a>");
textView.setClickable(true);
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

And process it in TCActivity:

if(data.getHost().equals("SENDEMAIL")){
    Log.i("LOG", "Email:" + data.getQueryParameter("email"));
    Log.i("LOG", "Subject:" + data.getQueryParameter("subject"));
    Log.i("LOG", "Body:" + data.getQueryParameter("body"));
}

That's it. You should now get the Idea of what to do next.

See:

• Send email using Intent.ACTION_SEND

Solution 3

This was simple for me (using SDK version 23. Not sure if this property exists in earlier version). Add autoLink="email" in textview and give email id in Strings.xml. This email id comes in blue color as link and it opens us email once clicked. Pls try and let me know.

<string name="MailText">Click [email protected] to send us a mail for any query</string>

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/mailtext"
    android:text="@string/MailText"
    android:autoLink="email"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />