How to set the part of the text view is clickable

android.text.style.ClickableSpan can solve your problem. SpannableString ss = new SpannableString(“Android is a Software stack”); ClickableSpan clickableSpan = new ClickableSpan() { @Override public void onClick(View textView) { startActivity(new Intent(MyActivity.this, NextActivity.class)); } @Override public void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds) { super.updateDrawState(ds); ds.setUnderlineText(false); } }; ss.setSpan(clickableSpan, 22, 27, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE); TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.hello); textView.setText(ss); textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()); textView.setHighlightColor(Color.TRANSPARENT); In XML: <TextView … Read more