Select text from TextView?

Question

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 ?

Thanks,

Check this one : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4874266/what-text-selection-control-is-this/4874566#4874566 — Vikas Patidar, Feb 14 '11 at 10:50
@User333 I want to select text(example: A word) from bulk of text present in the textview.. — Siva Kumar, Feb 14 '11 at 11:26
@vikas TextSelection is introduced in Android 2.3 ,but what if i want to use it for the older versions ? — Siva Kumar, Feb 14 '11 at 11:27
[possible duplicate](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4989545/make-edittext-behave-as-a-textview-in-code) from the same user — dave.c, Feb 14 '11 at 12:42
@dave.c, they're not duplicates. That question is about how to get a very specific control (and it's only available in 2.3). This is a more general question about how to get text selection in a TextView. An answer to that question isn't an answer to this question. — James Moore, Jul 01 '11 at 16:44

score 12 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 27 '15 at 12:02

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Use this:

android:textIsSelectable="true"

as easy as pie ;)

Edit:

setting it in code: textView.setTextIsSelectable(true)

edited Oct 27 '15 at 12:02

David Ferenczy Rogožan

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CrackerJack9 · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-07T16:56:15.370

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:

private TextView mTextView;

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

@Override
public void onCreateContextMenu(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);
}

@Override
public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    ((ClipboardManager) getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE)).setText(mTextView.getText());
    return true;
}

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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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

edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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answered Jun 14 '12 at 03:34

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