How to allow the user to select a text range in a TextView (Similar to EditText)

Question

I\'ve got a TextView that I would like to allow the user to select a range of text from within it. The TextView takes up the entire width and heigh

Answer 1

You can enable the TextView's Spannable storage. See Highlight Text in TextView or WebView for an example.

See also:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/Spanned.html