Clickable URLs in Android TextViews  Android’s TextView widget
can contain clickable URLs. It can easily make web addresses
open in the browser, or connect phone numbers with the dialer.
All that is amazing compared to the last GUI framework I used,
Delphi’s once great VCL).  Unfortunately, both TextView and the
Linkify utility it uses basically hardcode URL click handling to
Intents, by way of the URLSpans they create. What if we want the
link to affect something within your own Activity, say, display
a dialog, or enable a filter?  For example, in Autostarts, if
the user’s filters cause the application list to be empty, I
wanted to display an explanatory message, and provide a quick
and easy way for the user to rectify the situation, i.e. lead
him towards the filter selection dialog. Making the whole text
clickable is hard to get right visually, and I didn’t like the
idea of a button too much. A link within the text seemed
perfect.  Now, we could just use a custom URL scheme of course,
and register our Activ