textview textIsSelectable=“true” not working in Listview

Answer 1

Remove the textIsSelectable, instead use:

android:inputType="textMultiLine"

The text will be selectable and editable.

Answer 2

Remove android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants"​ in the recyclerview or listview to prevent the blocking of selection

Also, change the textview layout width from match_parent to wrap_content to prevent the selectable text feature to be disabled when reusing the text cell.

Answer 3

In my case it wasn't working because I had textView in xml layout with android:visibility="gone" property and made it visible later in adapter code. So, you need call this after you makes textview visible

textView.setTextIsSelectable(true);