From 4cd8bc7dde9ff3a555b35065537fb3fdb4ae7be7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matias de Andrea <deandreamatias@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 13:34:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] feat: add hyperlink support in Markdown rendering for deb
 and snap pages

---
 packages/app_center/lib/deb/local_deb_page.dart     | 4 ++++
 packages/app_center/lib/snapd/snap_page.dart        | 3 +++
 packages/app_center/lib/widgets/hyperlink_text.dart | 9 +++++++++
 packages/app_center/pubspec.lock                    | 2 +-
 packages/app_center/pubspec.yaml                    | 1 +
 5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/app_center/lib/deb/local_deb_page.dart b/packages/app_center/lib/deb/local_deb_page.dart
index 68286f1cc..662591865 100644
--- a/packages/app_center/lib/deb/local_deb_page.dart
+++ b/packages/app_center/lib/deb/local_deb_page.dart
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import 'package:app_center/error/error.dart';
 import 'package:app_center/extensions/string_extensions.dart';
 import 'package:app_center/l10n.dart';
 import 'package:app_center/layout.dart';
+import 'package:app_center/widgets/hyperlink_text.dart';
 import 'package:app_center/widgets/widgets.dart';
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:flutter_html/flutter_html.dart';
@@ -90,6 +91,9 @@ class _Description extends StatelessWidget {
         const SizedBox(height: kPagePadding),
         MarkdownBody(
           selectable: true,
+          builders: {
+            'a': HyperlinkTextMarkdown(),
+          },
           data: debData.details.description.escapedMarkdown(),
         ),
       ],
diff --git a/packages/app_center/lib/snapd/snap_page.dart b/packages/app_center/lib/snapd/snap_page.dart
index 54b72afd7..69d1b3f4a 100644
--- a/packages/app_center/lib/snapd/snap_page.dart
+++ b/packages/app_center/lib/snapd/snap_page.dart
@@ -234,6 +234,9 @@ class _SnapView extends StatelessWidget {
                             const SizedBox(height: kPagePadding),
                             MarkdownBody(
                               selectable: true,
+                              builders: {
+                                'a': HyperlinkTextMarkdown(),
+                              },
                               data: snapData.snap.description.escapedMarkdown(),
                             ),
                           ],
diff --git a/packages/app_center/lib/widgets/hyperlink_text.dart b/packages/app_center/lib/widgets/hyperlink_text.dart
index ba6862227..2e021ea28 100644
--- a/packages/app_center/lib/widgets/hyperlink_text.dart
+++ b/packages/app_center/lib/widgets/hyperlink_text.dart
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import 'package:app_center/constants.dart';
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
+import 'package:flutter_markdown/flutter_markdown.dart';
+import 'package:markdown/markdown.dart' as md;
 import 'package:url_launcher/url_launcher_string.dart';
 
 /// A [Text] widget formatted as an accessible hyperlink.
@@ -63,3 +65,10 @@ class _HyperlinkTextState extends State<HyperlinkText> {
     );
   }
 }
+
+class HyperlinkTextMarkdown extends MarkdownElementBuilder {
+  @override
+  Widget? visitElementAfter(md.Element element, TextStyle? preferredStyle) {
+    return HyperlinkText(text: element.textContent, link: element.textContent);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/app_center/pubspec.lock b/packages/app_center/pubspec.lock
index f42bf519e..45113e665 100644
--- a/packages/app_center/pubspec.lock
+++ b/packages/app_center/pubspec.lock
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ packages:
     source: hosted
     version: "1.4.0+1"
   markdown:
-    dependency: transitive
+    dependency: "direct main"
     description:
       name: markdown
       sha256: "935e23e1ff3bc02d390bad4d4be001208ee92cc217cb5b5a6c19bc14aaa318c1"
diff --git a/packages/app_center/pubspec.yaml b/packages/app_center/pubspec.yaml
index c3b581053..d50c76df2 100644
--- a/packages/app_center/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/packages/app_center/pubspec.yaml
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ dependencies:
   intl: any
   json_annotation: ^4.9.0
   jwt_decode: ^0.3.1
+  markdown: ^7.3.0
   meta: ^1.15.0
   package_info_plus: ^8.0.2
   packagekit: ^0.2.7

From 846d4767e32d5e316dc8d806b6303aaff8dd1ebd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matias de Andrea <deandreamatias@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 13:48:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] feat: add documentation on custom builder for link texts
 in Markdown

---
 packages/app_center/lib/widgets/hyperlink_text.dart | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/packages/app_center/lib/widgets/hyperlink_text.dart b/packages/app_center/lib/widgets/hyperlink_text.dart
index 2e021ea28..7de96584e 100644
--- a/packages/app_center/lib/widgets/hyperlink_text.dart
+++ b/packages/app_center/lib/widgets/hyperlink_text.dart
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ class _HyperlinkTextState extends State<HyperlinkText> {
   }
 }
 
+/// Custom builder for link texts on Markdown
 class HyperlinkTextMarkdown extends MarkdownElementBuilder {
   @override
   Widget? visitElementAfter(md.Element element, TextStyle? preferredStyle) {