Friday, May 18, 2012

How to click or tap on a TextView text


I know this is so easy (doh...) but I am looking for a way to run a method on tapping or clicking a TextView line of text in an Android App.



I keep thinking about button listeners and anonymous method listener calls, but it just does not seem to apply to TextView.



Can someone point me at some code snippet to show how clicking or tapping on a piece of text in a TextView runs a method?


Source: Tips4all

2 comments:

  1. You can set the click handler in xml with these attribute:

    android:onClick="onClick"
    android:clickable="true"


    Don't forget the clickable attribute, without it, the click handler isn't called.

    main.xml

    ...

    <TextView
    android:id="@+id/click"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Click Me"
    android:textSize="55sp"
    android:onClick="onClick"
    android:clickable="true"/>
    ...


    MyActivity.java

    public class MyActivity extends Activity {

    public void onClick(View v) {
    ...
    }
    }

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  2. This may not be quite what you are looking for but this is what worked for what I'm doing. All of this is after my onCreate.


    boilingpointK = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.boilingpointK);

    boilingpointK.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

    public void onClick(View v) {


    if ("Boiling Point K".equals(boilingpointK.getText().toString()))

    boilingpointK.setText("2792");


    else if ("2792".equals(boilingpointK.getText().toString()))

    boilingpointK.setText("Boiling Point K");
    } });

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