Android - Text Selectable - select part of a text

Question

How can I make a TextView selectable in API <= 11 ? I search a lot and found that i could use Editext as a TextView, but this away don't looks good anyway, and I need to send the part selected of a text to a new Activity, Someone could help me with this ?

A example of what i'm searching for is the Onlongclick pressed in app OperaMini. After a long click he opens a cursor for the user select that part of the text that him Need and a ContextMenu for that selected part.

Thank's.

I need to make something like this Print, when longclinck, make appears the selectors of text(the blue tips on the print) and show the part selected.

Answer 1

You either in xml make it selectable

        android:textIsSelectable="true"

or making your textview clickable by assigning it a Onclicklistener

  TextView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
        ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE); 
        clipboard.setText(TextView.getText());
        }
    });