Make ellipsized a TextView which has LinkMovementMethod

Question

I have a TexView which needs to be placed in maxim 2 lines and has a linkable text in it. If I set LinkMovementMethod to the text view I get a scrollable TextView and the ellipsize is ignored.

Xml code:

 <TextView
            android:id="@+id/text_view"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginBottom="4dip"
            android:clickable="true"
            android:maxLines="2"
            android:ellipsize="end"

            android:scrollHorizontally="false"
            android:scrollbars="horizontal"
            android:isScrollContainer="false"/>

This is my activity:

public class MyActivity extends Activity {

    private TextView tv;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text_view);

        SpannableStringBuilder captionSpan = new SpannableStringBuilder();
        captionSpan.append("a very long text here a very long text here a very long text here a very long text here a very long text here a very long text here a very long text here a very long text here");
        captionSpan.setSpan(new CustomClickableSpan(), 1, 7, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

        tv.setText(captionSpan);
        tv.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
    }

}


public class CustomClickableSpan extends android.text.style.ClickableSpan {

    @Override
    public void updateDrawState(TextPaint tp) {
        tp.setColor(tp.linkColor);
        tp.setUnderlineText(false);
    }

    @Override
    public void onClick(View widget) {
    }

}

If I do not set the movement method everything is working fine.

Answer 1

I found solution!
Instead setMovementMethod() use OnTouchListener .

String text = textView.getText().toString();
SpannableString spanText = new SpannableString(text);

//here set your spans to spanText

textView.setOnTouchListener(new TouchTextView(spanText));
textView.setText(spanText);

I got this onTouchEvent() from LinkMovementMethod class.

static class TouchTextView implements View.OnTouchListener {
    Spannable spannable;

    public TouchTextView (Spannable spannable){
        this.spannable = spannable;
    }
    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
        int action = event.getAction();
        if(!(v instanceof TextView)){
            return false;
        }
        TextView textView  = (TextView) v;
        if (action == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP ||
                action == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
            int x = (int) event.getX();
            int y = (int) event.getY();

            x -= textView.getTotalPaddingLeft();
            y -= textView.getTotalPaddingTop();

            x += textView.getScrollX();
            y += textView.getScrollY();

            Layout layout = textView.getLayout();
            int line = layout.getLineForVertical(y);
            int off = layout.getOffsetForHorizontal(line, x);

            ClickableSpan[] link = spannable.getSpans(off, off, ClickableSpan.class);

            if (link.length != 0) {
                if (action == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
                    link[0].onClick(textView);
                } else if (action == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
                    Selection.setSelection(spannable,
                            spannable.getSpanStart(link[0]),
                            spannable.getSpanEnd(link[0]));
                }

                return true;
            } else {
                Selection.removeSelection(spannable);
            }
        }

        return false;
    }
}

And sure TextView should have this attributes:

android:maxLines="2"
android:ellipsize="end"

Answer 2

I needed something slightly more flexible than the great solution by @Airfreshener. Hopefully it helps someone else.

Should be able to drop and replace instances of TextView with ClickableSpanTextView . You may need to add additional constructors to ClickableSpanTextView depending on your needs.

public class ClickableSpanTextView extends TextView {

  static class SpannableClickListener implements View.OnTouchListener {

    private static SpannableClickListener defaultInstance;

    public static SpannableClickListener defaultInstance() {
      if (defaultInstance == null) {
        defaultInstance = new SpannableClickListener();
      }
      return defaultInstance;
    }

    private SpannableClickListener() {}

    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent event) {
      if (!(view instanceof TextView)) {
        return false;
      }
      TextView textView = (TextView) view;

      CharSequence text = textView.getText();
      if (!(text instanceof Spannable)) {
        return false;
      }
      Spannable spannable = (Spannable) text;

      int action = event.getAction();
      if (action == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP || action == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
        int x = (int) event.getX();
        int y = (int) event.getY();

        x -= textView.getTotalPaddingLeft();
        y -= textView.getTotalPaddingTop();

        x += textView.getScrollX();
        y += textView.getScrollY();

        android.text.Layout layout = textView.getLayout();
        int line = layout.getLineForVertical(y);
        int off = layout.getOffsetForHorizontal(line, x);

        ClickableSpan[] link = spannable.getSpans(off, off, ClickableSpan.class);

        if (link.length != 0) {
          if (action == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
            link[0].onClick(textView);
          } else if (action == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
            Selection.setSelection(
                spannable, spannable.getSpanStart(link[0]), spannable.getSpanEnd(link[0]));
          }

          return true;
        } else {
          Selection.removeSelection(spannable);
        }
      }

      return false;
    }
  }

  static class CompositeOnTouchListener implements View.OnTouchListener {
    OnTouchListener[] listeners;

    public CompositeOnTouchListener(OnTouchListener... listeners) {
      this.listeners = listeners;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent event) {
      for (OnTouchListener listener : listeners) {
        // Apply each touch listener in order until one returns true
        if (listener.onTouch(view, event)) {
          return true;
        }
      }
      return false;
    }
  }

  public ClickableSpanTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    super.setOnTouchListener(SpannableClickListener.defaultInstance());
  }

  @Override
  public void setOnTouchListener(OnTouchListener listener) {
    super.setOnTouchListener(
        new CompositeOnTouchListener(SpannableClickListener.defaultInstance(), listener));
  }
}