Is there a good way to declare a text with a clickable link in Compose yet?

# compose

[allan.conda]

Is there a good way to declare a text with a clickable link in Compose yet?

[Filip Wiesner]

I think this should be possible using AnnotatedString (built using buildAnnotatedString {} ).
There is a Text composable overload that takes it.

[allan.conda]

Trying to find the api to make a part of it clickable…

[Filip Wiesner]

I thought you could make SpanStyle clickable but maybe it is not possible after all 🤔
Sorry for misinformation 😅

[Filip Wiesner]

Oh, do you want to whole text to be clickable? If so, you can use ClickableText composable.

[allan.conda]

I thought you could make SpanStyle clickable but maybe it is not possible after all 🤔

Sorry for misinformation 😅

Yes I meant this. Seems still not possible, I’m just using a normal text view and parses text as HTML

[Filip Wiesner]

Maybe this thread can help you: https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CJLTWPH7S/p1604593417483000

[allan.conda]

That looks crazy… I remember one of the goals of AnnotatedString is to be a replacement for Spans

[allan.conda]

anyway, thanks for your help!

[Filip Wiesner]

No problem 🙂

[allan.conda]

The Android Textpert (@Siyamed) may have an update for us on this 😅

[Filip Wiesner]

I think you'll have to wait a bit 😄

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

ClickableText allows you to choose which parts of the text you want to respond to clicks - the callback gets an index.

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

I think the goal of AnnotatedString is to replace the styling spans, but IIRC someone on the compose team said it wasn’t supposed to cover all the use cases because there would eventually be better compose apis to do some of the things you’d use spans for in the old world.

[Sergey Y.]

<https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/text#click-with-annotation>

[allan.conda]

Thanks! I was confused how to use the pushStringAnnotation thing so it seems something that can be used with Clickable.
Not sure what’s the best practice for localizing this though. I supposed I’d still have to put some marker in the string resource and figure out the start and end index from that.

[Utkarsh Tiwari]

ClickableText doesn’t seem to support Talkback a11y for text with multiple embedded links.

[Siyamed]

We have planned to deprecate ClickableText. We dont like it.

[Siyamed]

b/139312671 for links

[Siyamed]

b/169887606 for accessibility

[Utkarsh Tiwari]

b/169887606 for accessibility

@Siyamed I am getting Access denied for this ticket. Could you please get me access to it on this email: [e-mail] if possible 🙏

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/139312671 is a different ticket but i think for the same issue