Select + copy text in a TextView?

android

Is there a way to allow the user to select / copy text in a TextView? I need the same functionality of EditText where you can long-press the control and get the popup options of select all / copy, but I need the control to look like a TextView.

Tried a few things like making an EditText use the editable="none" option or inputType="none", but those still retain the framed background of an EditText, which I don't want,

Thanks

------- Update ----------------------

This is 99% there, all I'd want is for the selection hilight to be visible (the orange stuff). Other than that it's good, could live with this though:

<EditText 
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:editable="false"
  style="?android:attr/textViewStyle"
  android:textColor="@color/white"
  android:textAppearance="@android:style/TextAppearance.Medium"
  android:cursorVisible="false"
  android:background="@null" />

I guess it's being caused because of cursorVisible="false" but without that the cursor is present even without any selection being made.

android:textIsSelectable works (at least in ICS - I haven't yet checked in earlier versions)

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

Text View needs to be enabled, focusable, longClickable and textIsSelectable

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

I think I have a better 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

Select + copy text in a TextView?

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