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TextView textView =(TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView);
textView.setClickable(true);
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
String text = "<a href='http://www.google.com'> Google </a>";
textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(text));
From API level >= 24 onwards Html.fromHtml(String source) is deprecated instead use fromHtml(String, int),
textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(text, Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_COMPACT));
Or in layout xml file, inside your TextView widget attributes
android:autoLink="web"
android:linksClickable="true"
                If the hyperlink text is present in strings.xml then none of the suggested answers are working. It works in very weird way. If I set the text directly in layout xml it works, but when I set the textview data in java code it doesn't work.
– AndroidDev
                Dec 10, 2019 at 5:43
                Just to mention that if you use the Java code you need to remove android:autoLink="web" from XML. I had both and it didn't work.
– Αntonis Papadakis
                Mar 28, 2020 at 21:30
                @Velu you must surround the string with <![CDATA[string]>> where string is your whole string text with a ulr. Was trying to fix this for an hour...
– Vojtěch Hořánek
                Sep 1, 2021 at 12:17
        android:id="@+id/txtLostpassword"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:autoLink="email"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:padding="20px"
        android:text="@string/lostpassword"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" />
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/txtLostpassword"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:autoLink="web"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:padding="20px"
        android:text="@string/defaultpassword"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" />
String in string.xml 

<string name="lostpassword">If you lost your password please contact <a href="mailto:support@cleverfinger.com.au?Subject=Lost%20Password" target="_top">support@cleverfinger.com.au</a></string>
<string name="defaultpassword">User Guide <a href="http://www.cleverfinger.com.au/user-guide/">http://www.cleverfinger.com.au/user-guide/</a></string>
                It doesn't work if i change this line >cleverfinger.com.au/user-guide/</a></string> for a diferent text like: Click here
– Musculaa
                Apr 15, 2014 at 16:57
Note :- Html.fromHtml is deprecated in Android N
You need to do check and support Android N and higher versions of Android
                  //Set clickable true
                 tagHeading.setClickable(true);
                  //Handlle click event
                  tagHeading.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
                if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
                    tagHeading.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href='https://github.com/hiteshsahu'>https://github.com/hiteshsahu</a>", Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY));
                } else {
                    tagHeading.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href='https://github.com/hiteshsahu'>https://github.com/hiteshsahu</a>"));
Alternatively
You can don't want to id programmatically add autoLink flag on TextView.
android:autoLink="web"
android:linksClickable="true"
This way You don't need to add <a href='somelink'> tags.
Which is a disadvantage, if you want to add hyperlink on a text you can't do it this way. eg you can't do something like this:-  [hiteshsahu][1]
           <TextView
                android:id="@+id/tag_info"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_below="@+id/tag_ll"
                android:layout_gravity="left"
                android:layout_margin="10dp"
                android:autoLink="web"
                android:linksClickable="true"
                android:text="https://github.com/hiteshsahu"
                android:textColor="@color/secondary_text" />
The result from both approach:-
https://github.com/hiteshsahu
Use below line 

String yourtext = "<a style='text-decoration:underline' href='http://www.sample.com'> Sample Website </a>";
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 24) {
        textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(yourtext, Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY));
    } else {
        textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(yourtext));
I have made a following extension function of a textview.
@SuppressLint("SetTextI18n")
fun TextView.makeHyperLink(url: String) {
    text = if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
        Html.fromHtml("<a href='${url}'>${text}</a>", Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_COMPACT)
    } else {
        Html.fromHtml("<a href='${url}'>${text}</a>")
    movementMethod = LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()
    isClickable = true
and calling it like this
tvTos.makeHyperLink(tos_url)
You can also pass text as a parameter.
				How to set Hyperlink in place of link with click here text, whole text body come from string of a static json in android
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