How to clear the selection in an EditText?

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yuttadhammo picture yuttadhammo · Jul 18, 2012 · Viewed 7.9k times · Source

How do you programmatically remove the selection from an EditText? I've tried:

myEditText.setSelection(selectionEnd);

but that just creates a selection of 0 length at the end of the current selection. I've also tried Selection.removeSelection(mySpannable), and it just puts an empty selection at the beginning of the text.

Answer

user1417127 picture user1417127 · Jul 18, 2012

Calling myEditText.clearFocus();. I think that's what you need

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