Attribute android:textIsSelectable="true" is not working

[sufficientlysecure]

Attribute android:textIsSelectable="true" is not working

[dschuermann]

textIsSelectable seems to be extremely buggy for TextViews in general (https://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=textIsSelectable).

[MinimalMatt]

I never had a problem with the standard TextViews. Is there a workaround to make it works? I just need to be able to copy the selected text.
By the way thanks for the answer.

[ofalvai]

In my case the exact problem was that on Marshmallow and above, the text could be selected, but the text selection commands didn't appear above the textview.
I think the root cause is the overridden HtmlTextView.onTouchEvent() method, and that the mDontConsumeNonUrlClicks field set to true, because currently the method always returns false thanks to that boolean. If I set mDontConsumeNonUrlClicks to true, the text selection bubble appears above the text.

Currently there's no way to control that field outside the package (I modified the code of HtmlTextView to test my solution), but I would gladly make a pull request with a setter method. I'm just not sure what's the purpose of mDontConsumeNonUrlClicks currently, and whether it could be removed altogether or a setter would be better.

[dschuermann]

@ofalvai If you still have some free time I would appreciate a pull request. I think mDontConsumeNonUrlClicks can be removed!

[dschuermann]

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