fyi: there's a bug depending on the version you're using (works in 1.1
but isn't called in 1.5):

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2887

-- Urs

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Jason
Proctor<jason.android.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> i'm not sure whether this is possible in a TextView, but in a
> WebView, you can override the handling of clicks on URLs and do
> pretty much whatever you like.
>
> check out WebViewClient.shouldOverrideUrlLoading().
>
>
>
>>Is it possible to use a hyperlink in android to do something other
>>than open a web page? I want to use a hyperlink in a TextView to
>>luanch a new activity, or something along those lines. I have a large
>>document and I want to let the user jump to references within the doc
>>(like a footnote or something). Can this be done?
>>
>>Ken
>>
>>
>
> --
> jason.vp.engineering.particle
>
> >
>

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