make Android Textview or EditText selectable

Question

I want to make EditText or Textview selectable in my android project . project is for android 4.0+ . I add this : txtView.setTextIsSelectable(true) and also : txtView.setCustomSelectionActionModeCallback(new myCallback()); to make my custom selection menu . but this error happend when i want to select the text .

W/TextView﹕ TextView does not support text selection. Action mode cancelled.

i searched about the error but didn't find the solution .what should i do ?

Disloyal

Check if you have android:focusable="false" or android:focusableInTouchMode="false" in your xml – Protoactinium

Have a look at this: link – Pitiful

What do you really want to do..select the edittext and textview text or showing a color when this widgets are selected. – Sunward

@Surenderkumar i want to make it possible for users to share the text they selected in textview . – Disloyal

Answer 1

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/id"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textIsSelectable="true"
    android:text="" />

*API Level 11 and up only

Orlop

Putting textIsSelectable on my EditText breaks the EditText focus, in particular when you close the keyboard (you can never open it up again). – Soutine

any solution can u offer @dextor ,so that I can edit my answer, – Orlop

It seems like this is only related to EditText. So no need to change your answer. – Soutine

Does it really work? I tried the same. But, it's not working. Getting the following warning log while trying to select text W/TextView: TextView does not support text selection. Action mode cancelled. – Hoelscher

Without textIsSelectable Android is not logging "Textview does not support text selection. Action mode cancelled.". Also this doesn't solve the issue. How was this exactly helpful? – Nidanidaros

Answer 2

setTextIsSelectable does fix the problem on Android 7.1.1 for sure. The setEnabled(false) and then true didn't work.

editText.setTextIsSelectable(true);

My exact situation was having setFocusable(false) and adding an onClickListener, then setting setFocusable(true) and onClickListener(null) gave me the error in the OP.

(not correct syntax but you get the idea)

Moonmoonbeam