diff --git a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/main-page.ts b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/main-page.ts
index c892c71ea0..6c2e063580 100644
--- a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/main-page.ts
+++ b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/main-page.ts
@@ -45,5 +45,6 @@ export function loadExamples() {
     examples.set("background-shorthand", "css/background-shorthand");
     examples.set("background-image-linear-gradient", "css/background-image-linear-gradient");
     examples.set("background-image", "css/background-image");
+    examples.set("tappable-span", "css/tappable-span");
     return examples;
 }
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diff --git a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/tappable-span.ts b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/tappable-span.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bb77c8b605
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/tappable-span.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import { EventData, TextBase } from "tns-core-modules/ui/text-base";
+
+export function foxTap(args: EventData) {
+    console.log("foxTap");
+}
+
+export function dogTap(args: EventData) {
+    console.log("dogTap");
+}
diff --git a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/tappable-span.xml b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/tappable-span.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0730daf9ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/tappable-span.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<Page>
+  <StackLayout>
+    <Label automationText="formattedText" id="formattedText" textWrap="true" style="text-transform: capitalize;">
+      <Label.formattedText>
+        <FormattedString>
+          <FormattedString.spans>
+            <Span text="The quick brown " style="font-weight: bold; color: green;" />
+            <Span text="fox" style="font-weight: italic; color: green;" linkTap="foxTap"/>
+            <Span text=" jumps over the lazy " style="font-weight: bold; color: red;" />
+            <Span text="dog" style="font-weight: bold; color: blue;" linkTap="dogTap"/>
+            <Span text="." style="font-weight: bold; color: green;" />
+          </FormattedString.spans>
+        </FormattedString>
+      </Label.formattedText>
+    </Label>
+  </StackLayout>
+</Page>
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diff --git a/tns-core-modules/text/span.d.ts b/tns-core-modules/text/span.d.ts
index 7cc9258ee1..9b2855e6ff 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/text/span.d.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/text/span.d.ts
@@ -50,6 +50,16 @@ export class Span extends ViewBase {
      * Gets or sets the text for the span.
      */
     public text: string;
+
+    /**
+     * String value used when hooking to linkTap event.
+     */
+    public static linkTapEvent: string;
+
+    /**
+     * Gets if the span is tappable or not.
+     */
+    public readonly tappable: boolean;
     
     //@private
     /**
diff --git a/tns-core-modules/text/span.ts b/tns-core-modules/text/span.ts
index 55620609d6..b184683c68 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/text/span.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/text/span.ts
@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@
 import { Span as SpanDefinition } from "./span";
 import { ViewBase } from "../ui/core/view";
 import { FontStyle, FontWeight, } from "../ui/styling/font";
-import { TextDecoration } from "../ui/text-base";
+import { TextDecoration, EventData } from "../ui/text-base";
 
 export class Span extends ViewBase implements SpanDefinition {
+    static linkTapEvent = "linkTap";
     private _text: string;
+    private _tappable: boolean = false;
 
     get fontFamily(): string {
         return this.style.fontFamily;
@@ -68,7 +70,28 @@ export class Span extends ViewBase implements SpanDefinition {
         }
     }
 
+    get tappable(): boolean {
+        return this._tappable;
+    }
+
+    addEventListener(arg: string, callback: (data: EventData) => void, thisArg?: any) {
+        super.addEventListener(arg, callback, thisArg);
+        this._setTappable(this.hasListeners(Span.linkTapEvent));
+    }
+
+    removeEventListener(arg: string, callback?: any, thisArg?: any) {
+        super.removeEventListener(arg, callback, thisArg);
+        this._setTappable(this.hasListeners(Span.linkTapEvent));
+    }
+
     _setTextInternal(value: string): void {
         this._text = value;
     }
+
+    private _setTappable(value: boolean): void {
+        if (this._tappable !== value) {
+            this._tappable = value;
+            this.notifyPropertyChange("tappable", value);
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/tns-core-modules/ui/text-base/text-base.android.ts b/tns-core-modules/ui/text-base/text-base.android.ts
index 9ae4eb3679..28afb3a0d8 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/ui/text-base/text-base.android.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/ui/text-base/text-base.android.ts
@@ -50,6 +50,41 @@ function initializeTextTransformation(): void {
     TextTransformation = TextTransformationImpl;
 }
 
+interface ClickableSpan {
+    new (owner: Span): android.text.style.ClickableSpan;
+}
+
+let ClickableSpan: ClickableSpan;
+
+function initializeClickableSpan(): void {
+    if (ClickableSpan) {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    class ClickableSpanImpl extends android.text.style.ClickableSpan {
+        owner: WeakRef<Span>;
+
+        constructor(owner: Span) {
+            super();
+            this.owner = new WeakRef(owner);
+            return global.__native(this);
+        }
+        onClick(view: android.view.View): void {
+            const owner = this.owner.get();
+            if (owner) {
+                owner._emit(Span.linkTapEvent);
+            }
+            view.clearFocus();
+            view.invalidate();
+        }
+        updateDrawState(tp: android.text.TextPaint): void {
+            // don't style as link
+        }
+    }
+
+    ClickableSpan = ClickableSpanImpl;
+}
+
 export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
     nativeViewProtected: android.widget.TextView;
     nativeTextViewProtected: android.widget.TextView;
@@ -59,12 +94,15 @@ export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
     private _maxHeight: number;
     private _minLines: number;
     private _maxLines: number;
+    private _tappable: boolean = false;
+    private _defaultMovementMethod: android.text.method.MovementMethod;
 
     public initNativeView(): void {
         super.initNativeView();
         initializeTextTransformation();
         const nativeView = this.nativeTextViewProtected;
         this._defaultTransformationMethod = nativeView.getTransformationMethod();
+        this._defaultMovementMethod = this.nativeView.getMovementMethod();
         this._minHeight = nativeView.getMinHeight();
         this._maxHeight = nativeView.getMaxHeight();
         this._minLines = nativeView.getMinLines();
@@ -110,6 +148,7 @@ export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
         if (!reset && this.formattedText) {
             return;
         }
+        this._setTappableState(false);
 
         this._setNativeText(reset);
     }
@@ -130,6 +169,7 @@ export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
 
         const spannableStringBuilder = createSpannableStringBuilder(value);
         nativeView.setText(<any>spannableStringBuilder);
+        this._setTappableState(isStringTappable(value));
 
         textProperty.nativeValueChange(this, (value === null || value === undefined) ? "" : value.toString());
 
@@ -312,6 +352,19 @@ export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
 
         this.nativeTextViewProtected.setText(<any>transformedText);
     }
+
+    _setTappableState(tappable: boolean) {
+        if (this._tappable !== tappable) {
+            this._tappable = tappable;
+            if (this._tappable) {
+                this.nativeViewProtected.setMovementMethod(android.text.method.LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
+                this.nativeViewProtected.setHighlightColor(null);
+            }
+            else {
+                this.nativeViewProtected.setMovementMethod(this._defaultMovementMethod);
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 function getCapitalizedString(str: string): string {
@@ -343,6 +396,19 @@ export function getTransformedText(text: string, textTransform: TextTransform):
     }
 }
 
+function isStringTappable(formattedString: FormattedString) {
+    if (!formattedString) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    for (let i = 0, length = formattedString.spans.length; i < length; i++) {
+        const span = formattedString.spans.getItem(i);
+        if (span.tappable) {
+            return true;
+        }
+    }
+    return false;
+}
+
 function createSpannableStringBuilder(formattedString: FormattedString): android.text.SpannableStringBuilder {
     if (!formattedString || !formattedString.parent) {
         return null;
@@ -441,6 +507,12 @@ function setSpanModifiers(ssb: android.text.SpannableStringBuilder, span: Span,
         }
     }
 
+    const tappable = span.tappable;
+    if (tappable) {
+        initializeClickableSpan();
+        ssb.setSpan(new ClickableSpan(span), start, end, android.text.Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
+    }
+
     // TODO: Implement letterSpacing for Span here.
     // const letterSpacing = formattedString.parent.style.letterSpacing;
     // if (letterSpacing > 0) {