Change the Color of Highlighted text in Android

Question

I\'m not sure that this is possible, perhaps someone can set me straight. I have an EditText View in an android application that has white text on a blue background. When the te

Answer 1

Object mSelectionForegroundColorSpan;
@Override
protected void onSelectionChanged(int selStart, int selEnd) {
    super.onSelectionChanged(selStart, selEnd);
    if(mSelectionForegroundColorSpan == null){
        mSelectionForegroundColorSpan = new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.GREEN);
    }else{
        getText().removeSpan(mSelectionForegroundColorSpan);
    }
    if(selStart > selEnd){
        int swap = selStart;
        selStart = selEnd;
        selEnd = swap;
    }
    getText().setSpan(mSelectionForegroundColorSpan, selStart, selEnd, Spanned.SPAN_INTERMEDIATE);
}

Override the onSelectionChanged method of TextView, get the text and set a ForegroundColorSpan