How to set editable true false EditText in Android programmatically

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We can set editable property of EditText in XML layout but not programatically  but there is no setEditable   method   If EditText is not Enabled   by setEnabled false   it still Editable

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try this   EditText editText  EditText findViewById R id editText1    editText setKeyListener null     It works fine

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Since the setEditable false  is deprecated and we can t use it programmatically  we can use another way to solve it with setInputType InputType TYPE NULL  It means we change the input type of edit text  We set it to NULL so it becomes not editable  Here s the sample that might be useful  I code this on my onCreateView method Fragment    Override public View onCreateView LayoutInflater inflater  ViewGroup container                           Bundle savedInstanceState        View view   inflater inflate R layout yourfragment  container  false       EditText sample   view findViewById R id youredittext       sample setInputType InputType TYPE NULL    Hope this will answer the problem

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How to do it programatically    To enable EditText use   et setEnabled true     To disable EditText use   et setEnabled false

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Since setEditable false  is deprecated  use textView setKeyListener null   to make editText non-clickable

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Fetch the KeyListener value of EditText by editText getKeyListener    and store in the KeyListener type variable  which will contain the Editable property value   KeyListener variable  variable   editText getKeyListener       Set the Editable property of EditText to false as    edittext setKeyListener null     Now set Editable property of EditText to true as   editText setKeyListener variable       Note  In XML the default Editable property of EditText should be true

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I did it in a easier way   setEditable and setFocusable false  but you should check this   How to replicate android editable  quot false quot  in code

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This may help   if  cbProhibitEditPW isChecked         disable editing password        editTextPassword setFocusable false          editTextPassword setFocusableInTouchMode false      user touches widget on phone with touch screen        editTextPassword setClickable false      user navigates with wheel and selects widget        isProhibitEditPassword  true    else      enable editing of password        editTextPassword setFocusable true          editTextPassword setFocusableInTouchMode true          editTextPassword setClickable true          isProhibitEditPassword  false

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editText setInputType InputType TYPE NULL

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editText setFocusable false   editText setClickable false

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An easy and safe method   editText clearFocus    editText setFocusable false

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Once focus of edit text is removed  it would not allow you to type even if you set it to focusable again   Here is a way around it  if  someCondition     editTextField setFocusable false   else    editTextField setFocusableInTouchMode true     Setting it true in setFocusableInTouchMode   seems to do the trick

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Try this it is working fine for me    EditText setInputType 0   EditText setFilters new InputFilter    new InputFilter      Override public CharSequence filter CharSequence source  int start                              int end  Spanned dest  int dstart  int dend     return source length    lt  1   dest subSequence dstart  dend

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hope this one helps you out   edittext1 setKeyListener null   edittext1 setCursorVisible false   edittext1 setPressed false   edittext1 setFocusable false

[android] How to set editable true/false EditText in Android programmatically?

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