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

I tried to do:

textView.setInputType( InputType.TYPE_NULL );

which should work, but for me it did not.

I finished with this code:

textView.setKeyListener(new NumberKeyListener() {
    public int getInputType() {
        return InputType.TYPE_NULL;
    }

    protected char[] getAcceptedChars() {
        return new char[] {};
    }
});

which works perfectly.

Answer 2

You could use android:editable="false" but I would really advise you to use setEnabled(false) as it provides a visual clue to the user that the control cannot be edited. The same visual cue is used by all disabled widgets and consistency is good.

Answer 3

Try

.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

Answer 4

I use EditText.setFocusable(false) and set true again if I want to edit.

Answer 5

Let your Edittext be

EditText editText;

editText.setKeyListener(null);

will work but it just not listening to keys.

User can see a cursor on the edittext.

You can try editText.setEnabled(false);

That means user cannot see the cursor. To simply say it will became TextView.

Answer 6

This way did the job for me, i can selec and copy to clipboard, but i can't modify or paste.

android:enable="true"
android:textIsSelectable="true"
android:inputType="none"