How to make EditText not editable through XML in A

Question

Can anyone tell me how to make an EditText not editable via XML? I tried setting android:editable to false, but

1. it is deprecated; and
2. it didn't work.

Answer 1

When I want an activity to not focus on the EditText and also not show keyboard when clicked, this is what worked for me.

Adding attributes to the main layout

android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

and then the EditText field

android:focusable="false"
android:focusableInTouchMode="false"

Here is an example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/activity_home"
    android:background="@drawable/bg_landing"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="0dp"
    android:paddingLeft="0dp"
    android:paddingRight="0dp"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
    tools:context="com.woppi.woppi.samplelapp.HomeActivity">

    <EditText
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@null"
        android:inputType="textPersonName"
        android:ems="10"
        android:id="@+id/fromEditText"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:hint="@string/placeholder_choose_language"
        android:textColor="@android:color/white"
        android:textColorHint="@android:color/darker_gray"
        android:focusable="false"
        android:focusableInTouchMode="false"
        android:onClick="onSelectFromLanguage" />

</RelativeLayout>

Answer 2

Try this :

android:inputType="none"

Answer 3

This combination worked for me:

<EditText ... >
    android:longClickable="false"
    android:cursorVisible="false"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="false"
</EditText>

Answer 4

I've tried the following:

codeEditText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

this.codeEditText.setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {

  @Override
  public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {

    if (hasFocus) {

      pickCode();

    }

  }

});
this.codeEditText.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

  @Override
  public void onClick(View v) {

    pickCode();

  }

});

but the problem was that if the edit text is the first in the form then it gets the focus and the pickCode() code which launches a new activity is called straight away. So I modified the code as follows and it seems to work quite well (except I cannot set the focus on the text edit but I don't need to):

itemCodeEditText.setFocusable(false);

this.itemCodeEditText.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

  @Override
  public void onClick(View v) {

    pickItem();

  }

});

Best Regards,

Comments welcome,

John Goche

Answer 5

In addition to @mahe madi you can try this as well

editText.setEnabled(false);
editor.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);

This method will hide cursor, lose focus and more importantly set text color to black behaving like TextView.

And to revert Back to editText simply do this to gain all the properties of EditText.

editText.setEnabled(true);

Hope it Helps :)

Answer 6

Use this simple code:

textView.setKeyListener(null);

It works.

Edit : To add KeyListener later, do following

1 : set key listener to tag of textView

textView.setTag(textView.getKeyListener());
textView.setKeyListener(null);

2 : get key listener from tag and set it back to textView

textView.setKeyListener((KeyListener) textView.getTag());