Android How to select text from TextView for a book reader?

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I would like to create a book reader and for this i have a problem of selecting some text and i don't know what is the best way. I read some posts in which they where using EditText for selection. But this is not so usefull because when you long tap it shows select word/select all and the keyboard appears, what i want is only the possibility to select text, listen the selection and then using Spannable/Linkify to edit that portion of text.

If there is no easy thing to use the standard text cursor controllers, can i create a custom cursor controllers or something like that ?

I read this posts:

Select text from TextView?

How to allow the user to select a text range in a TextView (Similar to EditText)

Thank you in advance.

Update:

I found this class android.text.Selection that seems to use the cursor controllers But i don't find any examples on google about it.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 21 '12 at 16:36

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Use android:textIsSelectable="true" on your TextView.

answered Jun 21 '12 at 16:36

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10x, but this is for API 11+. I would like a solution from API 10+. – djcharon Jun 21 '12 at 16:42
@djcharon: Ah, then I suspect you're stuck with the workarounds outlined in those other SO questions. – CommonsWare Jun 21 '12 at 16:45
I see, do you know how to create a selector ? – djcharon Jun 21 '12 at 17:46
@djcharon: A selector refers to a `StateListDrawable`: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html#StateList – CommonsWare Jun 21 '12 at 19:30
I just found out that the "selectors" that i want are called cursor controllers. – djcharon Jun 21 '12 at 19:33
@djcharon: Yeah, I don't know what that means, sorry. – CommonsWare Jun 21 '12 at 19:34

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

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I'm made a custom TextView with selection capability by studying Android's source code. Please see my answer from the other question Android- How can I show text selection on textview?

edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

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answered Jun 17 '13 at 12:21

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