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

Actually, you do not have to develop this feature by yourself. You just need to use EditText instead TextView, while you set the android:editable of EditText to false. My idea is the same as sandy's.

My code is here, hope it may help you:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/11026292/966405