How do I launch a URL in browser from an OnClick event on a TextView?

Question

I have read the answer "How do I launch a URL in the browser from my Application on Android" but I am still confused.

------> Basically I have a TextView that will be displaying different names of famous people, and what I want is, to perform a google search in the browser that searches for the text that is currently displayed in the TextView, when the user clicks on the TextView itself.

Thanks.

Answer 1

in onClickListner event write this code:

String url = textView.getText().toString();
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
i.setData(Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(i);

Answer 2

Well, what I understand is that you want to launch Google search for the text when you click on the TextView. Here is a code to directly launch Google search of the text provided:

String searchKey = "Text From your TextView";
Intent search = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_WEB_SEARCH);  
search.putExtra(SearchManager.QUERY, searchKey);  
startActivity(search);