app freeze when applying links to large texts with a lot of links

[ajdevy]

The problem occurs when we have a text with about 3000 symbols, all made of "www.gmail.com www.gmail.com www.gmail.com..." about 230 of them, there are 26 000 for loop iterations in SpannableStringInternal.getSpans() : at android.text.SpannableStringInternal.getSpans(SpannableStringInternal.java:216) at android.text.SpannableString.getSpans(SpannableString.java:25) at android.text.SpannableStringInternal.sendSpanAdded(SpannableStringInternal.java:310) at android.text.SpannableStringInternal.setSpan(SpannableStringInternal.java:138) at android.text.SpannableString.setSpan(SpannableString.java:46) at com.klinker.android.link_builder.LinkBuilder.applyLink(LinkBuilder.java:226) at com.klinker.android.link_builder.LinkBuilder.addLinkToSpan(LinkBuilder.java:199) at com.klinker.android.link_builder.LinkBuilder.addLinkToSpan(LinkBuilder.java:174) at com.klinker.android.link_builder.LinkBuilder.build(LinkBuilder.java:148)

The problems seems that after every setSpan() call there is a sendSpanAdded() call, which triggers the getSpans(), which iterates for every span it has.