Android Get length of highlighted text in TextView -

i'm doing app has textview , that's clickable. when clicked allows user select words or whole sentence or paragraph. got part of selecting , highlighting text, problem want have different colour highlight , save highlighted text db next time user check it, he/she see highlighted text.

so far i've tried:

 tv.setonlongclicklistener(new onlongclicklistener() {          @override         public boolean onlongclick(view v) {              int startselection = tv.getselectionstart();             int endselection = tv.getselectionend();             string selectedtext = tv.gettext().tostring().substring(startselection, endselection);              log.e("text", "" + selectedtext);              spannablestring spannable = new spannablestring(tv.gettext().tostring());              //spannable spannable = new spannablestring(tv.gettext().tostring());             spannable.setspan(new backgroundcolorspan(color.blue), startselection, endselection, 0);              //tv.setselection(startselection, endselection);             tv.settext(spannable);               return true;         }      }); 

layout.xml:

<textview         android:textstyle="bold"         android:id="@+id/tvordinancetitle"         android:layout_width="match_parent"         android:layout_height="wrap_content"         android:text="@string/app_name"         android:textisselectable="true" />  

any ideas or workaround? gladly appreciate help. thanks.

to change text color, use foregroundcolorspan:

spannable.setspan(new foregroundcolorspan(color.red), startselection, endselection, 0); 

to keep text color change selected text color, use selector: define xml under drawable -- text_color_selector.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">     <item android:state_pressed="true" android:color="@color/red" />     <item android:color="@color/black" /> </selector> 

and use selector when styling textview in layout xml:

android:textcolor="@drawable/text_color_selector" 

if want save selected text doing:

string selectedtext = v.gettext().tostring().substring(startselection, endselection);