Is it possible to send an SMS with hyperlink and anchor text (hidden URL) on Android device?

Question

I know that the Android Message app can parse URLs that starts with "www" and "http://", making them hyperlinks. But is it possible to send a hyperlink, where only the anchor text is displayed and the URL is hidden?

Thanks

Answer 1

Basically, no, you can't.

SMS is a specific standard that contains just text. So when you send something that looks like a URL, the Android (and iOS/Windows/whatever) messaging apps can detect it using a RegEx or similar and make it a link. But you can't do anything like an <a href=""> tag as you would with HTML. You might be able to use MMS to achieve this, but I'm not 100% on that.

Good luck!