How to find the position of Cursor to select text from that position in Edit text?

Question

I am working on Keyboard for android devices where i am Text editing options like Google Keyboard like (Text selection, copy paste etc). for example i typed a text ABSCEONDER and now i want to selection some portion of text. like i want text selection from position E. What i did is i drooped cursor at position E manually. now how do i find the position of Cursor to select text from that position? can any one help?

 ExtractedText extractedText = mLatinIme.getCurrentInputConnection().getExtractedText(new ExtractedTextRequest(), 0);
                if (extractedText == null || extractedText.text == null) return;
                int index = extractedText.text.length();
                mLatinIme.getCurrentInputConnection().setSelection(0, index);

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 09 '19 at 11:13

Thank you @mohammadReza Abiri. I found the solution for this.

 ExtractedText extractedText = mLatinIme.getCurrentInputConnection().getExtractedText(new ExtractedTextRequest(), 0);
        if (extractedText == null || extractedText.text == null) return;

        int selectionStart = extractedText.selectionStart;
        int selectionEnd = extractedText.selectionEnd;

        mLatinIme.getCurrentInputConnection().setSelection(selectionStart, selectionEnd + 1);

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 09 '19 at 07:28

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you can get the cursor position from your EditText like this :

editText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
            @Override
            public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {

            }

            @Override
            public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {

            }

            @Override
            public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {

              int pos = editText.getSelectionStart();
              Layout layout = editText.getLayout();
              float x = layout.getPrimaryHorizontal(pos);

            }
        });

answered Nov 09 '19 at 07:28

mohammadReza Abiri

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bro if it is in Input connection? like if we are typing message on mobile then how do i find the position? – S.J Hashmi Nov 09 '19 at 07:47
if i use int pos=mLatinIme.getCurrentInputConnection() then getstartselection do not work. – S.J Hashmi Nov 09 '19 at 07:50

How to find the position of Cursor to select text from that position in Edit text?

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