Question

In an edittext is there a method for getting the current line of the cursor? If not I will write my own method, but just wanted to check. If I do write my own method would the best method be to go through every character in the edittext until selectionstart and count the number of \n’s using a For loop, or is there a better way? Thanks!

Answer 1

Just to let people know:

There is a better way to do this then Doug Paul has suggested by using the getLineForOffset(selection):

public int getCurrentCursorLine(EditText editText)
{    
    int selectionStart = Selection.getSelectionStart(editText.getText());
    Layout layout = editText.getLayout();

    if (!(selectionStart == -1)) {
        return layout.getLineForOffset(selectionStart);
    }

    return -1;
}