Android: How to make TextView editable?

Question

How can I allow user to edit a TextView? Of course, I can use EditText instead, but I don't know how to customize it and also I've read in Android documentation that TextView can be editable. So I tried this:

<TextView android:id="@+id/tv"
          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:textSize="80sp"
          android:text="MyText"
          android:editable="true"
          android:singleLine="true"
          android:inputType="text"
          android:focusable="true"
          android:clickable="true"
          android:cursorVisible="true"/>

But it still looks like common TextView. Does anyone know what I have missed? Or, may be, how to customize EditText for it look like TextView: without borders and background?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12056054/android-how-to-make-textview-editable

Answer 1

I know you don't want to use an EditText but it's really easy to make it look like a TextView.

<EditText
     android:id="@+id/Id"
     android:layout_width="fill_parent"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:background="@android:color/transparent" >
 </EditText>

You can also use android:background="@null".

Edit:

The TextView's editable param does make it editable (with some restrictions).

If you set android:editable="true" you can access the TextView via the D-pad, or you could add android:focusableInTouchMode="true" to be able to gain focus on touch.

The problem is you cannot modify the existing text, and you cannot move the cursor. The text you write just gets added before the existing text.