Android: How to catch the global double-click events on text?

Question

Is it possible to catch the global double-click events on text in Android? If so, how to do it? Should I get root right first?

To be more specifically, when I double-click the text area in the built-in apps, the text will be selected and it will pop a menu to operate on it.

However, in other apps, such behaviour will not occur. Hence, I would like to catch the global the double-click events and customize the pop-menu.

Any solutions or advices will be appreciated.

Edit:

I would like to catch double-click events in other apps, not in my apps. My apps is to make such event-catching possible.

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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Yes, You have to set EditText android:textIsSelectable="true"

And create Action mode callback

for more info see this

edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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answered Mar 08 '16 at 07:41

Zumry Mohamed

I would like to catch double-click events in other apps, not in my apps. My apps is to make such event-catching possible. I have updated my question. – chenzhongpu Mar 08 '16 at 07:47
i dont think you can listen other apps . – Zumry Mohamed Mar 08 '16 at 07:51
You can pass intent data to the other apps. http://developer.android.com/training/sharing/send.html root == admin. so there might be possibility to do that. – Zumry Mohamed Mar 08 '16 at 07:57

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