enable selection of Linkify-annotated text

Bug: 8515643
Change-Id: I74e8b9e45e2645ec6287abd1cd6e47d383c4f3e0

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/core/java/android/text/method/LinkMovementMethod.java b/core/java/android/text/method/LinkMovementMethod.java
index aff233df16a3..3855ff3ae44b 100644
--- a/core/java/android/text/method/LinkMovementMethod.java
+++ b/core/java/android/text/method/LinkMovementMethod.java
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ public class LinkMovementMethod extends ScrollingMovementMethod {
     private static final int DOWN = 3;
 
     @Override
+    public boolean canSelectArbitrarily() {
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    @Override
     protected boolean handleMovementKey(TextView widget, Spannable buffer, int keyCode,
             int movementMetaState, KeyEvent event) {
         switch (keyCode) {