Android TextView links not highlighted when clicked

Question

I have an android TextView that has a link in it. The link looks great and performs the correct action when the user clicks on it, but as long as the user's finger does not work, the link does not change color at all. Is this normal Android behavior? It seems that some kind of backlight or indicator will be useful, especially if I have a little text and lots of links next to each other. Is this what other people see, is there an easy solution for this?

Also, the slash at the end of the URL is not part of the link. It smells like a bug in their RegEx.

Here is the code I'm using:

textView.setAutoLinkMask(Linkify.WEB_URLS); textView.setText("Hi welcome to http://www.plopfizz.com/ please enjoy."); 

Answer 1

You can create a selector of elements with diff states, for example ...

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <item android:state_pressed="true" android:color="#FEFEFE" /> <!-- highlight --> <item android:state_focused="true" android:color="#000000" /> <item android:color="#FFFFFF" /> <!-- default --> </selector> 

And then in your layout ...

 <TextView ... android:textColor="@color/above_selector"/>