Android Compose – Selectable Text

Android Compose – Make text selectable

In this tutorial, we will learn how to make the text selectable in a Text composable in Android Compose.

By default, the text in a Text composable is not selectable.

To make the text in Text composable available for selection, wrap the Text composable in a SelectionContainer.

SelectionContainer() {
    Text("Hello World! Welcome to TutorialKart!")
}

Example

In this example, we have a Text composable. We make the text in the Text composable selectable, by wrapping it in a SelectionContainer.

Create a Project in Android Studio with empty compose activity template, and modify MainActivity.kt file as shown in the following.

MainActivity.kt

package com.example.myapplication

import android.os.Bundle
import androidx.activity.ComponentActivity
import androidx.activity.compose.setContent
import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.*
import androidx.compose.foundation.text.selection.SelectionContainer
import androidx.compose.material.Text
import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
import com.example.myapplication.ui.theme.MyApplicationTheme

class MainActivity : ComponentActivity() {
    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContent {
            MyApplicationTheme {
                Column(
                    horizontalAlignment = Alignment.CenterHorizontally,
                    modifier = Modifier
                        .padding(20.dp)
                        .fillMaxWidth()) {
                    SelectionContainer() {
                        Text("Hello World! Welcome to TutorialKart!")
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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Conclusion

In this Android Jetpack Compose Tutorial, we learned how to make content in a Text selectable.