ClickableSpan clickable = new ClickableSpan() {

				@Override
				public void onClick(View widget) {
		            Log.e("select text", "hi");
				}
			};
SpannableString f = new SpannableString("....") ;
f.setSpan(clickable,  x, y, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

P.S: I skipped the MovementMethod part coz I don’t need it.

int selectionStart = textView.getSelectionStart();
int selectionEnd = textView.getSelectionEnd();

your code works perfect. I have just a problem with getting the clicked text.
On Y Ramesh’s example: “This is a #test of regular expressions with http://example.com links as used in @twitter. http://twitter.com.“;

How do you get the clicked text? The onClick method has the whole textview.

Oh and here is my code for wrapping http with spans and a foregroundcolor

int start = 0;
int end = 0;
int offset = 0;
if(countMatches > 0){
while(countMatches > 0){
// getting start and end index of the http occurences
start = text.indexOf(“http”, offset);
end = text.indexOf(” “, start);
offset = end;
f.setSpan(new InternalUrlSpan(new OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
if(v instanceof TextView){
System.out.println(((TextView)v).getText());
}
}
}), start, end, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
f.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(0xFF3366FF), start, end, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

countMatches–;
}
}