Select a part of TextView text

Question

I want to grab Text when user click on the TextView

For Example :

TextView string = "this is a test for android and textView"

When user click on textview in android position grab android
Anyone have a solution for this ?

Do you create the TextView by code or in a XML ? Can you provide us more code ? — Plumillon Forge, Sep 06 '13 at 08:42
my purpose is when user click on textview(Textview include long string) grab clicked text... a little like OCR but here i a textview not image . — Araz Jafaripur, Sep 06 '13 at 09:03

Pramod Ravikant · Answer 1 · 2013-09-06T09:41:56.383

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TextView text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.yourTextViewId);
text.onClickListner(this);


@Override
public void onClick() {
    String textOnTextView = text.getText().toString();
}

edited Sep 06 '13 at 09:41

answered Sep 06 '13 at 08:45

Pramod Ravikant

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 06 '13 at 09:06

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You can assign an onClick listener to the textview, make it final and then get its text.

    final TextView txt = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txt);

    txt.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View arg0) {
            String getTxt = txt.getText().toString();
        }
    });

answered Sep 06 '13 at 09:06

Ahmed Ekri

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He don't want all the text. Just part of the text where the user touches. – Nizam Sep 06 '13 at 09:16

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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If you want to split lines and display them in different color then refer to following links.

Split text from string

Apply color to specific text

edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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answered Sep 06 '13 at 08:45

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 06 '13 at 09:02

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A button has onClick , I dont think that a TextView has onClick so that a user clicks it.

Correct me if i am wrong

answered Sep 06 '13 at 09:02

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All View got onClickListener : http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html. So yes TextView does got onClick – Plumillon Forge Sep 06 '13 at 09:04
all views got onClickListener as Plumillon said, check my answer. – Ahmed Ekri Sep 06 '13 at 09:07

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 06 '13 at 09:08

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If you want to select part of text, try to use EditText

answered Sep 06 '13 at 09:08

Isaiah

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 06 '13 at 10:30

This is not a solution for your need. But only one step to solution.

Use setTextIsSelectable(boolean) or the TextView_textIsSelectable XML attribute to make the TextView selectable (text is not selectable by default).

Using following code, I managed to get selected text as String. You need to first select string by dragging over it.
NB: you need minimum API 11 to use setTextIsSelectable(boolean)

TextView t1;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    t1=(TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
t1.setTextIsSelectable(true);// IMPORTANT
        t1.setText("This is Android program");
        t1.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {

            @Override
            public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
                switch(event.getAction()){
                case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
                    int start=t1.getSelectionStart();
                    int end=t1.getSelectionEnd();
                    String sub=t1.getText().subSequence(start, end).toString();
                    Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), sub, 1).show();
                }
                return true;
            }
        });
}

Select a part of TextView text

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