diff --git a/core/java/android/text/util/Linkify.java b/core/java/android/text/util/Linkify.java
index 82c7ea705aa6b..a7ddfa93a74e1 100644
--- a/core/java/android/text/util/Linkify.java
+++ b/core/java/android/text/util/Linkify.java
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ public class Linkify {
 
         if ((mask & WEB_URLS) != 0) {
             gatherLinks(links, text, Patterns.AUTOLINK_WEB_URL,
-                new String[] { "http://", "https://", "rtsp://" },
+                new String[] { "http://", "https://", "rtsp://", "ftp://" },
                 sUrlMatchFilter, null);
         }
 
diff --git a/core/java/android/util/Patterns.java b/core/java/android/util/Patterns.java
index 50cd7b18e254f..7ad16ff3dc232 100644
--- a/core/java/android/util/Patterns.java
+++ b/core/java/android/util/Patterns.java
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ public class Patterns {
     private static final String DOMAIN_NAME_STR = "(" + HOST_NAME + "|" + IP_ADDRESS_STRING + ")";
     public static final Pattern DOMAIN_NAME = Pattern.compile(DOMAIN_NAME_STR);
 
-    private static final String PROTOCOL = "(?i:http|https|rtsp)://";
+    private static final String PROTOCOL = "(?i:http|https|rtsp|ftp)://";
 
     /* A word boundary or end of input.  This is to stop foo.sure from matching as foo.su */
     private static final String WORD_BOUNDARY = "(?:\\b|$|^)";