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

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!

hope this one helps you out:

edittext1.setKeyListener(null);
edittext1.setCursorVisible(false);
edittext1.setPressed(false);
edittext1.setFocusable(false);

How to do it programatically :

To enable EditText use:

et.setEnabled(true);

To disable EditText use:

et.setEnabled(false);

try this,

EditText editText=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText1);

editText.setKeyListener(null);

It works fine...

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() < 1 ? dest.subSequence(dstart, dend) : "";

}
}
});

editText.setFocusable(false);
editText.setClickable(false);

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

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.

An easy and safe method:

editText.clearFocus();
editText.setFocusable(false);

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.

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;
}

editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

Since setEditable(false) is deprecated, use textView.setKeyListener(null); to make editText non-clickable.