Android: EditText listener for cursor position change [duplicate]

Question

I'm looking for a way to detect a cursor position changed in an EditText. I couldn't find anything in the documentation so far. Has anyone solved this already?

Hijack

Answer 1

You can override onSelectionChanged (int selStart, int selEnd) to get notified about selection changes. If the cursor is moved, this is called as well (in this case selStart == selEnd)

Bellina

Thanks. Stupid me. I must have missed that :-( – Hijack

Sorry for the stupid question, but I'm new to Android development, so could you give me an example of using onSelectionChange? Eclipse doesn't seem to list that function when I try to apply it to an EditText. Is it not available for SDK version 1.5? – Razor

onSelectionChanged is available since API Level 3, i.e. Android 1.5. It is an overridable in TextView, the base class of EditText, so be sure to check the overridables of TextView in the Eclipse dialog. – Bellina