How to display cursor at the end of text in TextView?

Question

I wanted to display blinking cursor at the end of the text in TextView .

I tried by android:cursorVisible=\"true\" in TextView But no go .

Even i t

Answer 1

There is a solution for this.

I had to do this when I was making a terminal app and I used a simple runnable put a cursor at the end and make it blink.

I made 3 class variables:

private boolean displayCursor;
private boolean cursorOn;
private String terminalText;

private TextView terminal; // The TextView Object

terminalText keeps track of the text to be displayed.

Created a class method that runs the runnable the first time

private void runCursorThread() {
    Runnable runnable = new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            if (displayCursor) {
                if (cursorOn) {
                    terminal.setText(terminalText);
                } else {
                    terminal.setText(terminalText + '_');
                }
                cursorOn = !cursorOn;
            }
            terminal.postDelayed(this, 400);
        }
    };
    runnable.run();
}

And initiated the variables and called runCursorThread() in onCreate()

    cursorOn = false;
    displayCursor = true;
    runCursorThread();