android - Get current visible text in textview

Question

I have a long passage in a TextView which is wrapped around by ScrollView. Is there any way to find the current visible text?

I can find the number of lines, line height in textview and also scrollx and scrolly from scrollview, but find the linkage to the current displayed text. Please help! Thanks.

Answer 1

It is simple to do this:

int start = textView.getLayout().getLineStart(0);
int end = textView.getLayout().getLineEnd(textView.getLineCount() - 1);

String displayed = textView.getText().toString().substring(start, end);