I know you don't want to use anEditTextbut it's really easy to make it look like aTextView.

<EditText android:id="@+id/Id" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:background="@android:color/transparent" > </EditText>

You can also useandroid:background="@null".

Edit:

TheTextView'seditableparamdoesmake it editable (with some restrictions).

If you setandroid:editable="true"you can access theTextViewvia the D-pad, or you could addandroid:focusableInTouchMode="true"to be able to gain focus on touch.

The problem is you cannot modify the existing text, and you cannot move the cursor. The text you write just gets added before the existing text.