Copy text from TextView on Android

Question

I have a ListView where each item is a TextView.

I want to enable the long press behaviour similar to an EditText that display

Answer 1

To allow users to copy some or all of the TextView's value and paste it somewhere else,

set the XML attribute {@link android.R.styleable#TextView_textIsSelectable android:textIsSelectable} to "true"

or

call {@link #setTextIsSelectable setTextIsSelectable(true)}.

Answer 2

I have a solution, but I'm not exactly to useful.

just use this method :

txtDescDetail.setCursorVisible(true);

i hope to do it.

Answer 3

You might want to register an onItemLongClickListener on your ListView and then based on the selected item, provide the user with whatever options you choose.

Answer 4

Here is the solution

 <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textID"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
        android:clickable="true"
        android:focusable="true"
        android:text="Terms and Conditions"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

override setOnLongClickListener

override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
    textID.setTextIsSelectable(true)
    textID. setOnLongClickListener {
       val clipboardManager = getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE) as ClipboardManager
       val clip = ClipData.newPlainText("Copied String",  textID.text)
       clipboardManager.setPrimaryClip(clip)
       true // Or false if not consumed
   }
}

the expected behavior will be like the image below

Answer 5

I think I have a solution. Just call
registerForContextMenu(yourTextView);

and your TextView will be registered for receiving context menu events.

Then override onCreateContextMenu in your Activity:

@Override
public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v, ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {
    //user has long pressed your TextView
    menu.add(0, v.getId(), 0, "text that you want to show in the context menu - I use simply Copy");

    //cast the received View to TextView so that you can get its text
    TextView yourTextView = (TextView) v;

    //place your TextView's text in clipboard
    ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE); 
    clipboard.setText(yourTextView.getText());
}

Hope this helps you and anyone else looking for a way to copy text from a TextView

Answer 6

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 code is here:

R.layout.edittext.xml

<EditText xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="40dip"
android:editable="false" 
android:background="@null"
android:textColor="#FFFFFF"/>

ListItemCopyTextActivity.java

public class ListItemCopyTextActivity extends Activity {    

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    LinearLayout ll = new LinearLayout(this);
    ListView lv = new ListView(this);

    String[] values = new String[15];
    for (int i = 0; i < 15; i++) {
        values[i] = "ListItem NO." + i;
    }

    ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
            R.layout.edittext, values);
    lv.setAdapter(adapter);

    ll.addView(lv, LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT);

    setContentView(ll);

    }
}

You can just long click the item, and choose the select text, copy, cut, past etc.