diff --git a/src/api-impl-jni/generated_headers/android_widget_TextView.h b/src/api-impl-jni/generated_headers/android_widget_TextView.h
index 40cd8a33..ecd57bc9 100644
--- a/src/api-impl-jni/generated_headers/android_widget_TextView.h
+++ b/src/api-impl-jni/generated_headers/android_widget_TextView.h
@@ -239,14 +239,6 @@ JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_android_widget_TextView_setTextSize
 JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_android_widget_TextView_native_1setTextColor
   (JNIEnv *, jobject, jint);
 
-/*
- * Class:     android_widget_TextView
- * Method:    getText
- * Signature: ()Ljava/lang/CharSequence;
- */
-JNIEXPORT jobject JNICALL Java_android_widget_TextView_getText
-  (JNIEnv *, jobject);
-
 /*
  * Class:     android_widget_TextView
  * Method:    native_setCompoundDrawables
diff --git a/src/api-impl-jni/widgets/android_widget_TextView.c b/src/api-impl-jni/widgets/android_widget_TextView.c
index bfb0998f..c2d82a20 100644
--- a/src/api-impl-jni/widgets/android_widget_TextView.c
+++ b/src/api-impl-jni/widgets/android_widget_TextView.c
@@ -97,11 +97,6 @@ JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_android_widget_TextView_native_1set_1markup(JNIEnv *
 	gtk_label_set_use_markup(label, value);
 }
 
-JNIEXPORT jobject JNICALL Java_android_widget_TextView_getText(JNIEnv *env, jobject this)
-{
-	return _JSTRING(gtk_label_get_text(box_get_label(env, _PTR(_GET_LONG_FIELD(this, "widget")))));
-}
-
 JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_android_widget_TextView_native_1setCompoundDrawables(JNIEnv *env, jobject this, jlong widget_ptr, jlong left, jlong top, jlong right, jlong bottom)
 {
 	GtkWidget *box = GTK_WIDGET(_PTR(widget_ptr));
diff --git a/src/api-impl/android/widget/TextView.java b/src/api-impl/android/widget/TextView.java
index 42f5677c..e902b3db 100644
--- a/src/api-impl/android/widget/TextView.java
+++ b/src/api-impl/android/widget/TextView.java
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ import android.view.KeyEvent;
 import android.view.View;
 
 public class TextView extends View {
-	public String text;
 	private ColorStateList colors = new ColorStateList(new int[][] {new int[0]}, new int[1]);
+	private CharSequence text;
 
 	public TextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
 		this(context, attrs, 0);
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ public class TextView extends View {
 	protected native long native_constructor(Context context, AttributeSet attrs);
 
 	public void setText(CharSequence text) {
+		this.text = text;
 		native_setText(text != null ? text.toString() : null);
 
 		if (text instanceof android.text.Spanned)
@@ -194,7 +195,9 @@ public class TextView extends View {
 	public int getCompoundPaddingTop() {return 0;}
 	public int getCompoundPaddingBottom() {return 0;}
 
-	public native CharSequence getText();
+	public CharSequence getText() {
+		return text;
+	};
 
 	public void setCompoundDrawablePadding(int pad) {}