Select Text From Textview?

Is it possible to select text from a TextView(including highlight) ? It is possible with EditText but i need that to be done using TextView .. Any help regarding this please ? Than

Solution 1:

Use this:

android:textIsSelectable="true"

as easy as pie ;)

Edit:

setting it in code: textView.setTextIsSelectable(true)

Solution 2:

Not sure exactly what you are going for, and this may not be exactly what you want, but you can register it for a ContextMenu and then use onCreateContextMenu and the CLIPBOARD_SERVICE:

privateTextView mTextView;

protected final voidonCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
...
registerForContextMenu(mTextView);
}

@OverridepublicvoidonCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View view, ContextMenu.ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {
        TextView textView = (TextView) view;
        menu.setHeaderTitle(textView.getText()).add(0, 0, 0, R.string.menu_copy_to_clipboard);
}

@OverridepublicbooleanonContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    ((ClipboardManager) getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE)).setText(mTextView.getText());
    returntrue;
}

Solution 3:

Actually, you do not have to develop this feature by yourself. You just need to use EditText instead TextView, while you set the android:editable of EditText to false.

My answer is here, hope it may help you:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/11026292/966405