how to NOT select all on EditText long click

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When the user long-touches/long-clicks in the EditText, my app always selects all text. How do you instead make the EditText not select all, and instead select only the user-selected text?

I read Select all text inside EditText when it gets focus then tried explicitly setting android:selectAllOnFocus="false"but that is not working. Double tapping or any other click length doesn't work either.

To override OnLongClickListener might work, but I don't know how to get the user's start and end selected index.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9128297/how-to-dyamically-select-text-from-edittext-onclicklistener — T. Webster, May 05 '13 at 03:26
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4181309/android-long-press-on-edit-text-behavior — T. Webster, May 05 '13 at 03:33
"get the user's start and end selected index" from where? Who/what should supply you with these indexes? — selalerer, May 05 '13 at 03:39

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 23 '21 at 23:38

For those who are coming across this question in the future, the (or at least a) solution is to add the textLongMessage option to android:inputType:

<EditText
    ...
    android:inputType="textLongMessage" >

<!-- Or you might have multiple input types -->
<EditText
    ...
    android:inputType="textLongMessage|textMultiLine|textNoSuggestions" >

This will make the EditText's behavior be to select a single word from the text.

score -2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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how to NOT select all on EditText long click

You can try in your main.xml file:

android:selectAllOnFocus="true"

edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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How is this even an answer? – Eliseo Ocampos May 26 '17 at 14:42

how to NOT select all on EditText long click

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