How to select text from a webview and not copy it?

Question

I am creating an application which requires a webview.

I want to enable text selection in webview. (I found a few solutions but none of them worked)

Once the webview is selected, it should not be directly copied. I should be able to expand the selection range with handles (It is possible in version 2.3 and later. But I want this on versions lower than 2.3. HTC's browser gives us this option)

Any idea?

possible duplicate of [Android: how to select texts from webview](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6058843/android-how-to-select-texts-from-webview) — Paresh Mayani, Oct 13 '11 at 09:34
On ICS, it is handled by the OS itself. You need not do anything — Sudarshan Bhat, Jun 19 '12 at 16:32

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 13 '11 at 09:40

2

recently i solved that

put this function on create or on load in activity

private void emulateShiftHeld(WebView view)
{
    try
    {
        KeyEvent shiftPressEvent = new KeyEvent(0, 0, KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN,
                                                KeyEvent.KEYCODE_SHIFT_LEFT, 0, 0);
        shiftPressEvent.dispatch(view);

    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        Log.e("dd", "Exception in emulateShiftHeld()", e);
    }
}

it will done...

edited Oct 13 '11 at 09:40

Paresh Mayani

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answered Oct 13 '11 at 09:35

Jigar Patel

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ok i got it to work... now there is a second part to the question i asked. how can i select the range of text to be selected on android 2.2? – Sudarshan Bhat Oct 13 '11 at 12:07

How to select text from a webview and not copy it?

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