Getting current cursor position in EditText

Asked Oct 20 '21 at 06:42

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Trying to get current cursor position in my editText in Android. Didn't find any solution. Simply can't get cursor position but can set position. Now trying to set cursor in onTextChanged function like below:

private var prevValue = ""

override fun beforeTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, count: Int, after: Int) {
        prevValue = s.toString()
    }

override fun onTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, before: Int, count: Int) {
        if (count - before > 1) {
            val newPos= s!!.length- abs(start-prevValue.length) 
            // newPos is incorrect. How can I calculate current cursor position?
            editText.setSelection(min(max(0,newPos),formattedValue.length))
            //I want to set cursor on the position where user typed any symbol

        }
    }

Any advices or help?

asked Oct 20 '21 at 06:42

Akram Baratov

getSelectionStart and getSelectionEnd return 0 because I'm not selecting text in EditText. – Akram Baratov Oct 20 '21 at 08:19
According to the answer I've linked, `getSelectionStart` returns the cursor position if no text is selected, is this not what you've found? – Henry Twist Oct 20 '21 at 10:59
It returns 0 in any case :( – Akram Baratov Oct 20 '21 at 11:09
@HenryTwist Oops, update. It returns position when my cursor in the end, but I need position in other cases – Akram Baratov Oct 20 '21 at 11:47
Strange. Can you update your question with what you've tried? – Henry Twist Oct 20 '21 at 16:42

Getting current cursor position in EditText

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