How to Prevent Keyboard appearing for EditText tha

Question

My activity has an EditText which is supposedly not editable until user clicks on edit button for the screen.

I did edit.setEnabled(false) but still a keyboard appears for the user and values can be added to the EditText in the screen via the keyboard even though the screen might look a bit greyed out. What else do I have to do to prevent editing of the EditText until user has specifically pushed an edit button.

Thanks, Steve

Answer 1

Use edittext.setInputType(0); in your java file.

Answer 2

Try setEditable(false) on your EditText.

Set it back to true when you want someone to be able to type in it.

Answer 3

In API level 21, a function has been added to EditText, namely

editText.setShowInputOnFocus(boolean show);

This is exactly what you need.

Answer 4

To make EditText Write Only and not have the keyboard show up I use these two commends within the .xml layout file.

        android:editable="false"
        android:inputType="none"

Answer 5

in your layout file add the attribute to your EditText

android:editable="false"

Answer 6

Attention that setEditable is depecrated.

You can use :

setInputType(EditorInfo.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT)

To turn keyboard on.

setInputType(EditorInfo.TYPE_NULL)

To turn keyboard off.