Android: how to select texts from webview

The above answers looks perfectly fine and it seems you’re missing something while selecting text. So you need to double check the code and find your overridden any TouchEvent of webview.

i Tried below code it works fine…

Function is

 private void emulateShiftHeld(WebView view)
    {
        try
        {
            KeyEvent shiftPressEvent = new KeyEvent(0, 0, KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN,
                                                    KeyEvent.KEYCODE_SHIFT_LEFT, 0, 0);
            shiftPressEvent.dispatch(view);
            Toast.makeText(this, "select_text_now", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Log.e("dd", "Exception in emulateShiftHeld()", e);
        }
    }

Call Above method wherever you want (You can put a button and call this method in its click event): emulateShiftHeld(mWebView);