I am building an application where the user enters text into an EditText.
I would like to be able to have the user touch a word, and detect the word at the pixel location they touched. Is there any way to do this?
Thanks, Victor
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I am building an application where the user enters text into an EditText.
I would like to be able to have the user touch a word, and detect the word at the pixel location they touched. Is there any way to do this?
Thanks, Victor
You may want to take a look at Spans. Particularly, ClickableSpan. You can assign a span to a part of the text to give that part of the text some “features” (in this case, it will make the text clickable).
There’s a nice example, in which custom Spans extending ClickableSpan are used in EditText to make the text display more user-friendly.