Disabling of EditText in Android

Question

In my application, I have an EditText that the user only has Read access not Write access.

In code I set android:enabled="false".

Although the background of EditText changed to dark, when I click on it the keyboard pops up and I can change the text.

What should I set to disable EditText?

Answer 1

As android:editable="false" is depricated.You can use InputType TYPE_NULL on EditText

use like this :

editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

Answer 2

For disable edit EditText, I think we can use focusable OR enable but

1. Using android:enabled=... or editText.setEnabled(...)

   It also changes the text color in EditText to gray.
   When clicked it have no effect

2. Using android:focusable=... or editText.setFocusable(false) - editText.setFocusableInTouchMode(true)

   It doesn't change text color of EditText
   When clicked it highlights the EditText bottom line for about few millisecond

Output

Answer 3

use EditText.setFocusable(false) to disable editing
EditText.setFocusableInTouchMode(true) to enable editing;

Answer 4

Use TextView instead.

Answer 5

This will make your edittext disabled.

editText.setEnabled(false);

And by using this

editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

Will just make your Edittext not show your softkeyboard, but if it is connected to a physical keyboard, it will let you type.

Answer 6

To disable the functionality of an EditText, just use:

EditText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

in case you want to enable it some way, then you can use:

EditText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);