How to get cursor position (x,y) in EditText android

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How do I get the cursor position x,y in an EditText in Android? (where x is the line# and y is the column#)

What do you mean by (x,y) in reference to a cursor? (Line#,Column#)? — devunwired, Feb 18 '11 at 17:28

score 47 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 14 '11 at 06:23

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int pos = editText.getSelectionStart();
Layout layout = editText.getLayout();
int line = layout.getLineForOffset(pos);
int baseline = layout.getLineBaseline(line);
int ascent = layout.getLineAscent(line);
float x = layout.getPrimaryHorizontal(pos);
float y = baseline + ascent;

and there you get the x, y positions in pixels of the cursor.

answered Jun 14 '11 at 06:23

Randy Sugianto 'Yuku'

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This was a huge help as I am working on this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25036816/custom-rotated-edittext-view-with-working-selection-cursor-location-etc – Suragch Nov 21 '14 at 15:39

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 23 '12 at 13:17

You can find the current selection's Line Number and Column like this:

// Get the current selection's line number
int line = edittext.getLayout().getLineForOffset(edittext.getSelectionStart());

// Find the index for the start of the selected line. Subtract that from the current selection's index
int column = edittext.getSelectionStart() - edittext.getLayout().getLineStart(line);

How to get cursor position (x,y) in EditText android

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