android - Jetpack Compose Text hyperlink some section of the text

Question

How can i add hyperlink to some section of the text of Text component?

With buildAnnotatedString i can set link section blue and underlined as in image below, but how can i also turn that section into link?

   val annotatedLinkString = buildAnnotatedString {
        val str = "Click this link to go to web site"
        val startIndex = str.indexOf("link")
        val endIndex = startIndex + 4
        append(str)
        addStyle(
            style = SpanStyle(
                color = Color(0xff64B5F6),
                textDecoration = TextDecoration.Underline
            ), start = startIndex, end = endIndex
        )
    }

    Text(
        modifier = modifier
            .padding(16.dp)
            .fillMaxWidth(),
        text = annotatedLinkString
    )

I can also get Spanned but is there any way to use it with Text?

val str: Spanned = HtmlCompat.fromHtml(
    "<a href="http://www.github.com">Github</a>", HtmlCompat.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY
)

Answer 1

For a complete answer you can use ClickableText which returns the position of text, and UriHandler to open URI in a browser.

val annotatedLinkString: AnnotatedString = buildAnnotatedString {

    val str = "Click this link to go to web site"
    val startIndex = str.indexOf("link")
    val endIndex = startIndex + 4
    append(str)
    addStyle(
        style = SpanStyle(
            color = Color(0xff64B5F6),
            fontSize = 18.sp,
            textDecoration = TextDecoration.Underline
        ), start = startIndex, end = endIndex
    )

    // attach a string annotation that stores a URL to the text "link"
    addStringAnnotation(
        tag = "URL",
        annotation = "https://github.com",
        start = startIndex,
        end = endIndex
    )

}

// UriHandler parse and opens URI inside AnnotatedString Item in Browse
val uriHandler = LocalUriHandler.current

// ?? Clickable text returns position of text that is clicked in onClick callback
ClickableText(
    modifier = modifier
        .padding(16.dp)
        .fillMaxWidth(),
    text = annotatedLinkString,
    onClick = {
        annotatedLinkString
            .getStringAnnotations("URL", it, it)
            .firstOrNull()?.let { stringAnnotation ->
                uriHandler.openUri(stringAnnotation.item)
            }
    }
)