How to support textView.setTextIsSelectable in lower android versions?

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textView.setTextIsSelectable(true);

requires min API level 11.

Is there anyway to support it from API level 8+ ?

i want in code, i'm dynamically changing it to "true" and false — yajnesh, Feb 10 '14 at 16:30
Do you had a look on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16167330/how-to-make-textview-selectable-under-api-11 or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6625300/selecting-text-on-textview-android-2-2 ? — Flixer, Feb 10 '14 at 16:32

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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There are some methods described here & here, but there's probably no way to do this to achieve same functionality

edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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answered Feb 10 '14 at 16:32

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 10 '14 at 16:36

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Create a new class by extending TextView class and override setTextIsSelectable

        @SuppressLint("NewApi")
public void setTextIsSelectable(boolean selectable) {
    if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT>=Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB)
        super.setTextIsSelectable(true);
    else
    {   
        super.setLongClickable(true);
        super.setOnLongClickListener(getSelectableLongClick());
        super.setOnTouchListener(getSelectableOnTouch());
    }
}

answered Feb 10 '14 at 16:36

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I'm using EditText. Where is getSelectableLongClick() and getSelectableOnTouch() ? – yajnesh Feb 13 '14 at 09:56

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 27 '14 at 13:54

I'm using EditText with the attributes:

android:inputType="none"
android:background="@null"

And do this in code:

editText.setKeyListener(null);

Which makes EditText non-editable but still with select and copy functionality. The only drawback is the visible cursor when the widget is focused. I can't set android:cursorVisible to false because it hides the selection background together with the cursor.

How to support textView.setTextIsSelectable in lower android versions?

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