Better way to get all the text in an EditText from an InputConnection?

Question

I\'ve written an IME (InputMethodService) and I need to get all the text from the EditText it is editing. I know one way:

InputConnection inputConnection = getCu         


        

Answer 1

My solution is to use getExtractedText(). I am not sure if this has some limitations, but has worked for me so far.

CharSequence currentText = inputConnection.getExtractedText(new ExtractedTextRequest(), 0).text;

Answer 2

Here is also another way to do it:

inputConnection.performContextMenuAction(android.R.id.selectAll);
CharSequence sData =  inputConnection.getSelectedText(0);