v2.2.0

• Make methods of ClickableSpanWithText and OnTimerReachedListener accessible by sub-classes of BetterLinkMovementMethod.
• #8: Avoid removing any highlight spans that were not set by BetterLinkMovementMethod.

v2.1.0

This release fixes two critical bugs:

• #9 Long-pressing on text results in an exception if there is no clickable span present at the pressed location.
• #11 Clicking a ClickableSpan results in an exception if the text is selectable (android:textIsSelectable="true").

v2.0

Library

• Support for listening to long-clicks on URLs
• Fixed a bug where URLs were staying highlighted even after lifting finger in some cases.

BetterLinkMovementMethod method = BetterLinkMovementMethod.linkify(Linkify.ALL, textView);
method.setOnLinkLongClickListener((textView, url) -> {
  // Do something with the URL and return true to indicate that this URL was handled.
  // Otherwise, return false to let Android handle the URL.
  return true;
});

Sample

• Replaced dark theme with light
• Replaced custom floating menu with PopupMenu, which have a nice entry animation on Marshmallow and above.

v1.2

Bugfix: BetterLinkMovementMethod wasn't getting applied in some cases via linkifyHtml(). This release fixes that.

v1.1

Library:

• Added support for all spans that extend ClickableSpan. The library was previously only limited to URLSpan.
• Fixed a memory leak issue.
• Added linkifyHtml() methods that can be used when Html.fromHtml() is used for inserting links. An example for its usage can be seen in the sample app.

Sample:

• Added separate floating menus for phone number, email and map links.