textIsSelectable property doesn't work with a Toolbar

Question

I have a normal TextView with the android:textIsSelectable property on true. This was working perfectly fine, even while I have the TextView inside of a ListView. But now I decided to use the new Toolbar as my ActionBar and it doesn't work anymore. I don't get a crash or anything, I only see the screen flickering on Lollipop devices when I longPress the TextView. On pre-Lollypop devices I see nothing happening.

Does anybody else have the same issue and is there a fix for it?

Answer 1

If you app theme extends one of .NoActionBar themes, you need to enable windowActionModeOverlay, to fix this issue.

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <item name="windowActionModeOverlay">true</item>
</style>