How to select a word on a tap in TextView
/EditText
in android. I have some text in a TextView
/EditText
and when user taps on a word, I want that word to be selected and after that when I call getSelectedText() like method, it should return me the selected word.
Any Help would be appreciated.
My goal is to perform some action when user taps on a particular word in TextView
/EditText
.
UPDATE: Another better approach is to use BreakIterator
:
private void init() {
String definition = "Clickable words in text view ".trim();
TextView definitionView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text);
definitionView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
definitionView.setText(definition, BufferType.SPANNABLE);
Spannable spans = (Spannable) definitionView.getText();
BreakIterator iterator = BreakIterator.getWordInstance(Locale.US);
iterator.setText(definition);
int start = iterator.first();
for (int end = iterator.next(); end != BreakIterator.DONE; start = end, end = iterator
.next()) {
String possibleWord = definition.substring(start, end);
if (Character.isLetterOrDigit(possibleWord.charAt(0))) {
ClickableSpan clickSpan = getClickableSpan(possibleWord);
spans.setSpan(clickSpan, start, end,
Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
}
}
}
private ClickableSpan getClickableSpan(final String word) {
return new ClickableSpan() {
final String mWord;
{
mWord = word;
}
@Override
public void onClick(View widget) {
Log.d("tapped on:", mWord);
Toast.makeText(widget.getContext(), mWord, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
.show();
}
public void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds) {
super.updateDrawState(ds);
}
};
}
OLD ANSWER
I wanted to handle click in my own Activity. I solved it by following code:
private void init(){
String definition = "Clickable words in text view ".trim();
TextView definitionView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.definition);
definitionView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
definitionView.setText(definition, BufferType.SPANNABLE);
Spannable spans = (Spannable) definitionView.getText();
Integer[] indices = getIndices(
definitionView.getText().toString(), ' ');
int start = 0;
int end = 0;
// to cater last/only word loop will run equal to the length of indices.length
for (int i = 0; i <= indices.length; i++) {
ClickableSpan clickSpan = getClickableSpan();
// to cater last/only word
end = (i < indices.length ? indices[i] : spans.length());
spans.setSpan(clickSpan, start, end,
Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
start = end + 1;
}
}
private ClickableSpan getClickableSpan(){
return new ClickableSpan() {
@Override
public void onClick(View widget) {
TextView tv = (TextView) widget;
String s = tv
.getText()
.subSequence(tv.getSelectionStart(),
tv.getSelectionEnd()).toString();
Log.d("tapped on:", s);
}
public void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds) {
super.updateDrawState(ds);
}
};
}
public static Integer[] getIndices(String s, char c) {
int pos = s.indexOf(c, 0);
List<Integer> indices = new ArrayList<Integer>();
while (pos != -1) {
indices.add(pos);
pos = s.indexOf(c, pos + 1);
}
return (Integer[]) indices.toArray(new Integer[0]);
}