Selectable text

General
1

Hello!

I have some TextViews and I need to select the text and copy it. For that I need the options to appear.

Like this:

Gmail Example

With the following code:

<App>
  <StackPanel>
    <TextView Margin="30" FontSize="16" TextWrapping="Wrap" Value="I'm a really long text and I need to be selected and copied! I'm a really long text and I need to be selected and copied! I'm a really long text and I need to be selected and copied! I'm a really long text and I need to be selected and copied!" />
  </StackPanel>
</App>

on iOS I get:

iOS Example
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which is good.

On Android, however, I get:

Android Example

It doesn’t even select the text. I tried to change keyboards and it doesn’t work.

Wasn’t this supposed to have the same behaviour as shown in the first screenshot? There is any workaround I can try for it to select and show the options on Android?

Thank you.

2

In addition to this, I found that when using the TextView with the Property IsReadOnly="True"

<TextView IsReadOnly="True" Margin="30" FontSize="16" TextWrapping="Wrap" Value="I'm a really long text and I need to be selected and copied! I'm a really long text and I need to be selected and copied! I'm a really long text and I need to be selected and copied! I'm a really long text and I need to be selected and copied!" />

On Android the text doesn’t wrap and the keyboard is shown when trying to “select” the text as it would show if we were editing the field, and still can’t select the text. On iOS it works as expected.

3

Thanks for reporting! I’ve logged three separate tickets and someone will take a look at them: one, two, three.