How to convert a TextView to EditText in android?

Question

I am fetching the data from a database and I am appending it to a TextView. When I do long click on TextView I want to convert it to an EditText. This is how I set the data

Answer 1

As far as I know you can't convert one to another. What you can is: Have a TextView and an EditText created in xml. EditText is hidden when TextView is showing. Then, on your listener to the onCLick you can:

text.setVisibility(View.GONE); 
editText.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
editText.setText(edititemname);

The editText variable can be defined where you define the text. You have to use the findViewById.