Android - text selection - select a piece of text

Question

How can I make TextView available in API <= 11? I searched a lot and found that I can use Editext as a TextView, but in any case it does not look good, and I need to send the selected part of the text to a new activity. Can someone help me?

An example of what I'm looking for is Onlongclick clicked in an OperaMini app. After a long click, it opens the cursor for the user who selects the part of the text that he needs, and ContextMenu for the selected part.

Thank x.

I need to do something like this. Printing, when longclinck, make displays a text selector (blue print hints) and shows the selected part.

Answer 1

You either make it available in xml

android:textIsSelectable="true" 

or make your text click available by assigning it an Onclicklistener

  TextView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE); clipboard.setText(TextView.getText()); } });