Android - get selection of text from EditText

Question

I'm trying to implement a copy/paste function. How can I get a selection of text from an EditText?

EditText et=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.title);

blabla onclicklistener on a button:

int startSelection=et.getSelectionStart();
int endSelection=et.getSelectionEnd();

Then I'm stuck. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Seems like you've already done the hard part by finding what the selected area is. Now you just need to pull that substring out of the full text.

Try this:

String selectedText = et.getText().substring(startSelection, endSelection);

It's just a basic Java String operation.