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author Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@google.com> 2015-02-13 17:08:27 -0800
committer Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@google.com> 2015-02-25 13:40:52 -0800
commit1ff7196be945f29c0ba75595d447e504dbafffc7 (patch)
tree93f63fe85ab9eafd33484441c5fb1837ed7fb142
parentae0fdaf5e864ab755e54243006e7116fbb375a7b (diff)
Document the limitations of Linkify addresses
Explain that we are using WebView#findAddresses() which is limited to US addresses at the moment (at least according to its documentation), among various other limitations. Bug: 5847264 Change-Id: If86c6d7c11cc080f0fe3401ffb7bce8068c6016f
-rw-r--r--core/java/android/text/util/Linkify.java5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/core/java/android/text/util/Linkify.java b/core/java/android/text/util/Linkify.java
index c1341e16f803..8e9eb48268b8 100644
--- a/core/java/android/text/util/Linkify.java
+++ b/core/java/android/text/util/Linkify.java
@@ -78,7 +78,10 @@ public class Linkify {
/**
* Bit field indicating that street addresses should be matched in methods that
- * take an options mask
+ * take an options mask. Note that this uses the
+ * {@link android.webkit.WebView#findAddress(String) findAddress()} method in
+ * {@link android.webkit.WebView} for finding addresses, which has various
+ * limitations.
*/
public static final int MAP_ADDRESSES = 0x08;