diff --git a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/main-page.ts b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/main-page.ts
index b43b01325..617bab3d8 100644
--- a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/main-page.ts
+++ b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/main-page.ts
@@ -44,6 +44,6 @@ 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("clickable-span", "css/clickable-span");
+    examples.set("tappable-span", "css/tappable-span");
     return examples;
 }
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diff --git a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/clickable-span.ts b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/tappable-span.ts
similarity index 100%
rename from apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/clickable-span.ts
rename to apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/tappable-span.ts
diff --git a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/clickable-span.xml b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/tappable-span.xml
similarity index 92%
rename from apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/clickable-span.xml
rename to apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/tappable-span.xml
index 6d90f0905..0730daf9a 100644
--- a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/clickable-span.xml
+++ b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/css/tappable-span.xml
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
         <FormattedString>
           <FormattedString.spans>
             <Span text="The quick brown " style="font-weight: bold; color: green;" />
-            <Span text="fox" style="font-weight: italic; color: green;" linkClick="foxTap"/>
+            <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;" linkClick="dogTap"/>
+            <Span text="dog" style="font-weight: bold; color: blue;" linkTap="dogTap"/>
             <Span text="." style="font-weight: bold; color: green;" />
           </FormattedString.spans>
         </FormattedString>
diff --git a/tns-core-modules/text/span.d.ts b/tns-core-modules/text/span.d.ts
index 399d040a3..9b2855e6f 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/text/span.d.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/text/span.d.ts
@@ -52,14 +52,14 @@ export class Span extends ViewBase {
     public text: string;
 
     /**
-     * String value used when hooking to linkClicked event.
+     * String value used when hooking to linkTap event.
      */
-    public static linkClickedEvent: string;
+    public static linkTapEvent: string;
 
     /**
-     * Gets if the span is clickable or not.
+     * Gets if the span is tappable or not.
      */
-    public readonly clickable: boolean;
+    public readonly tappable: boolean;
     
     //@private
     /**
diff --git a/tns-core-modules/text/span.ts b/tns-core-modules/text/span.ts
index aeaf1427f..b184683c6 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/text/span.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/text/span.ts
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ import { FontStyle, FontWeight, } from "../ui/styling/font";
 import { TextDecoration, EventData } from "../ui/text-base";
 
 export class Span extends ViewBase implements SpanDefinition {
-    static linkClickEvent = "linkClick";
+    static linkTapEvent = "linkTap";
     private _text: string;
-    private _clickable: boolean = false;
+    private _tappable: boolean = false;
 
     get fontFamily(): string {
         return this.style.fontFamily;
@@ -70,28 +70,28 @@ export class Span extends ViewBase implements SpanDefinition {
         }
     }
 
-    get clickable(): boolean {
-        return this._clickable;
+    get tappable(): boolean {
+        return this._tappable;
     }
 
     addEventListener(arg: string, callback: (data: EventData) => void, thisArg?: any) {
         super.addEventListener(arg, callback, thisArg);
-        this._setClickable(this.hasListeners(Span.linkClickEvent));
+        this._setTappable(this.hasListeners(Span.linkTapEvent));
     }
 
     removeEventListener(arg: string, callback?: any, thisArg?: any) {
         super.removeEventListener(arg, callback, thisArg);
-        this._setClickable(this.hasListeners(Span.linkClickEvent));
+        this._setTappable(this.hasListeners(Span.linkTapEvent));
     }
 
     _setTextInternal(value: string): void {
         this._text = value;
     }
 
-    private _setClickable(value: boolean): void {
-        if (this._clickable !== value) {
-            this._clickable = value;
-            this.notifyPropertyChange("clickable", 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 37db6e22f..9008a7176 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/ui/text-base/text-base.android.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/ui/text-base/text-base.android.ts
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ function initializeClickableSpan(): void {
         onClick(view: android.view.View): void {
             const owner = this.owner.get();
             if (owner) {
-                owner._emit(Span.linkClickEvent);
+                owner._emit(Span.linkTapEvent);
             }
             view.clearFocus();
             view.invalidate();
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
     private _maxHeight: number;
     private _minLines: number;
     private _maxLines: number;
-    private _clickable: boolean = false;
+    private _tappable: boolean = false;
     private _defaultMovementMethod: android.text.method.MovementMethod;
 
     public initNativeView(): void {
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
         if (!reset && this.formattedText) {
             return;
         }
-        this._setClickableState(false);
+        this._setTappableState(false);
 
         this._setNativeText(reset);
     }
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
 
         const spannableStringBuilder = createSpannableStringBuilder(value);
         nativeView.setText(<any>spannableStringBuilder);
-        this._setClickableState(isStringClickable(value));
+        this._setTappableState(isStringTappable(value));
 
         textProperty.nativeValueChange(this, (value === null || value === undefined) ? "" : value.toString());
 
@@ -353,10 +353,10 @@ export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
         this.nativeTextViewProtected.setText(<any>transformedText);
     }
 
-    _setClickableState(clickable: boolean) {
-        if (this._clickable !== clickable) {
-            this._clickable = clickable;
-            if (this._clickable) {
+    _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);
             }
@@ -396,13 +396,13 @@ export function getTransformedText(text: string, textTransform: TextTransform):
     }
 }
 
-function isStringClickable(formattedString: FormattedString) {
+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.clickable) {
+        if (span.tappable) {
             return true;
         }
     }
@@ -507,8 +507,8 @@ function setSpanModifiers(ssb: android.text.SpannableStringBuilder, span: Span,
         }
     }
 
-    const clickable = span.clickable;
-    if (clickable) {
+    const tappable = span.tappable;
+    if (tappable) {
         initializeClickableSpan();
         ssb.setSpan(new ClickableSpan(span), start, end, android.text.Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
     }