How to get selected text from AccessibilityNodeInfo

Question

I have an availability service running for the event type "typeViewTextSelectionChanged". I can catch this event trigger whenever the user selects any text, but how to get selected text content from AccessibilityNodeInfo or AccessibilityEvent objects

Answer 1

Inside is

onAccessibilityEvent(AccessibilityEvent event){} 

And then,

 //Get the source AccessibilityNodeInfo source = event.getSource(); //Grab the parent of the view that fired the event. AccessibilityNodeInfo rowNode = getListItemNodeInfo(source); //Using this parent, get references to child node, the selected text AccessibilityNodeInfo textNode = rowNode.getChild(0); //Get the text values String text = textNode.getText(); 

OR

Alternatively, in your case, the following should work fine. Since this is an event of type typeViewTextSelectionChanged, this is obviously from an EditText.

 String text=event.getText(); 

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