<NME> AnchorAwareLinkMovementMethod.java
<BEF> package cgeo.geocaching.ui;

import android.text.Layout;
import android.text.Selection;
import android.text.Spannable;
import android.text.method.LinkMovementMethod;
import android.text.method.Touch;
import android.text.style.ClickableSpan;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.TextView;
 * {@code LinkMovementMethod} with built-in suppression of errors for links, where the URL cannot be handled
 * correctly by Android.
 */
public class AnchorAwareLinkMovementMethod extends LinkMovementMethod {

    private AnchorAwareLinkMovementMethod() {
        // singleton
    }

    private static final class Holder {
        // initialization on demand holder
        private static final AnchorAwareLinkMovementMethod INSTANCE = new AnchorAwareLinkMovementMethod();
    }

    public static AnchorAwareLinkMovementMethod getInstance() {
        return Holder.INSTANCE;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(@NonNull final TextView widget, @NonNull final Spannable buffer, @NonNull final MotionEvent event) {
        try {
            final int action = event.getAction();

            if (action == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP ||
                    action == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
                int x = (int) event.getX();
                int y = (int) event.getY();

                x -= widget.getTotalPaddingLeft();
                y -= widget.getTotalPaddingTop();

                x += widget.getScrollX();
                y += widget.getScrollY();

                final Layout layout = widget.getLayout();
                final int line = layout.getLineForVertical(y);
                final int off = layout.getOffsetForHorizontal(line, x);

                final ClickableSpan[] link = buffer.getSpans(off, off, ClickableSpan.class);

                if (link.length != 0) {
                    if (action == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
                        if (link[0] instanceof URLSpan) {
                            ShareUtils.openUrl(widget.getContext(), ((URLSpan) link[0]).getURL());

                if (link.length != 0) {
                    if (action == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
                        link[0].onClick(widget);
                    } else {
                        Selection.setSelection(buffer,
                                buffer.getSpanStart(link[0]),
            if (view.getLayout() == null) {
                // This shouldn't be null, but do something sensible if it is.
                Selection.setSelection(text, text.length());
            }
        } else {
            Selection.setSelection(text, text.length());
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean canSelectArbitrarily() {
        return true;
    }
}

<MSG> open links from listing text in separate task (fix #8472)

<DFF> @@ -1,11 +1,18 @@
 package cgeo.geocaching.ui;
 
+import android.content.ActivityNotFoundException;
+import android.content.Context;
+import android.content.Intent;
+import android.net.Uri;
+import android.provider.Browser;
 import android.text.Layout;
 import android.text.Selection;
 import android.text.Spannable;
 import android.text.method.LinkMovementMethod;
 import android.text.method.Touch;
 import android.text.style.ClickableSpan;
+import android.text.style.URLSpan;
+import android.util.Log;
 import android.view.MotionEvent;
 import android.view.View;
 import android.widget.TextView;
@@ -56,7 +63,22 @@ public class AnchorAwareLinkMovementMethod extends LinkMovementMethod {
 
                 if (link.length != 0) {
                     if (action == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
-                        link[0].onClick(widget);
+                        if (link[0] instanceof URLSpan) {
+                            // copied from URLSpan.java
+                            final Uri uri = Uri.parse(((URLSpan) link[0]).getURL());
+                            final Context context = widget.getContext();
+                            final Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri);
+                            intent.putExtra(Browser.EXTRA_APPLICATION_ID, context.getPackageName());
+                            intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK); // this is different from the original!
+                            try {
+                                context.startActivity(intent);
+                            } catch (ActivityNotFoundException e) {
+                                Log.w("URLSpan", "Actvity was not found for intent, " + intent.toString());
+                            }
+                            // end copy from URLSpan.java
+                        } else {
+                            link[0].onClick(widget);
+                        }
                     } else {
                         Selection.setSelection(buffer,
                                 buffer.getSpanStart(link[0]),

open links from listing text in separate task (fix #8472)