How to click or tap on a TextView text

Question

I know this is so easy (doh...) but I am looking for a way to run a method on tapping or clicking a TextView line of text in an Android App.

I keep thinking about button listeners and anonymous method listener calls, but it just does not seem to apply to TextView.

Can someone point me at some code snippet to show how clicking or tapping on a piece of text in a TextView runs a method?

Answer 1

OK I have answered my own question (but is it the best way?)

This is how to run a method when you click or tap on some text in a TextView:

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package com.textviewy;

import android.app.Activity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.View; import android.view.View.OnClickListener; import android.widget.TextView;

public class TextyView extends Activity implements OnClickListener {

TextView t ; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); t = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.TextView01); t.setOnClickListener(this); }

public void onClick(View arg0) {
    t.setText("My text on click");  
    }
}

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and my main.xml is:

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Answer 2

This may not be quite what you are looking for but this is what worked for what I'm doing. All of this is after my onCreate.

boilingpointK = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.boilingpointK);

boilingpointK.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

          public void onClick(View v) {

if ("Boiling Point K".equals(boilingpointK.getText().toString()))

      boilingpointK.setText("2792");

else if ("2792".equals(boilingpointK.getText().toString()))

      boilingpointK.setText("Boiling Point K");   
}   });