title: Android - Text Selectable - select part of a text
body: <p>How can I make a TextView selectable in API &lt;= 11 ? I search a lot and found that i could use Editext as a TextView, but this away don't looks good anyway, and I need to send the part selected of a text to a new Activity, Someone could help me with this ?</p>
  
  <p>A example of what i'm searching for is the Onlongclick pressed in app OperaMini.
  After a long click he opens a cursor for the user select that part of the text that him Need and a ContextMenu for that selected part.</p>
  
  <p>Thank's.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/XSpoS.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>I need to make something like this Print, when longclinck, make appears the selectors of text(the blue tips on the print) and show the part selected.</p>