Make EditText ReadOnly

Question

I want to make a read-only EditText view  The XML to do this code seems to be android editable  false   but I want to do this in code    How can I do this

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If you just want to be able to copy text from the control but not be able to edit it you might want to use a TextView instead and set text is selectable.

code:

myTextView.setTextIsSelectable(true);
myTextView.setFocusable(true);
myTextView.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
// myTextView.setSelectAllOnFocus(true);

xml:

<TextView
    android:textIsSelectable="true"
    android:focusable="true"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"     
    ...
/>
<!--android:selectAllOnFocus="true"-->

The documentation of setTextIsSelectable says:

When you call this method to set the value of textIsSelectable, it sets the flags focusable, focusableInTouchMode, clickable, and longClickable to the same value...

However I had to explicitly set focusable and focusableInTouchMode to true to make it work with touch input.

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editText setEnabled false   editText setFilters new InputFilter     new InputFilter         public CharSequence filter CharSequence src  int start  int end              Spanned dst  int dstart  int dend            return src length    lt  1   dst subSequence dstart  dend                      This will give you uneditable EditText filter  you first need to put the text you want on the editText field and then apply this filter

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android editable   If set  specifies that this TextView has an input method  It will be a textual one unless it has otherwise been specified  For TextView  this is false by default  For EditText  it is true by default   Must be a boolean value  either true or false   This may also be a reference to a resource  in the form   package  type name  or theme attribute  in the form   package   type  name  containing a value of this type   This corresponds to the global attribute resource symbol editable   Related Methods

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I had no problem making EditTextPreference read-only  by using   editTextPref setSelectable false     This works well when coupled with using the  summary  field to display read-only fields  useful for displaying account info  for example   Updating the summary fields dynamically snatched from http   gmariotti blogspot com 2013 01 preferenceactivity-preferencefragment html  private static final List lt String gt  keyList   static       keyList   new ArrayList lt String gt         keyList add  field1        keyList add  field2        keyList add  field3        Override public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState        super onCreate savedInstanceState       addPreferencesFromResource R xml preferences        for int i 0 i lt getPreferenceScreen   getPreferenceCount   i             initSummary getPreferenceScreen   getPreference i             private void initSummary Preference p        if  p instanceof PreferenceCategory            PreferenceCategory pCat    PreferenceCategory  p          for  int i   0  i  lt  pCat getPreferenceCount    i                  initSummary pCat getPreference i                    else           updatePrefSummary p            private void updatePrefSummary Preference p        if  p instanceof ListPreference            ListPreference listPref    ListPreference  p          p setSummary listPref getEntry               if  p instanceof EditTextPreference            EditTextPreference editTextPref    EditTextPreference  p            editTextPref setEnabled false      this can be used to  gray out  as well         editTextPref setSelectable false           if  keyList contains p getKey                   p setSummary editTextPref getText

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The best is by using TextView instead

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This was the only full simple solution for me   editText setEnabled false        Prevents data entry editText setFocusable false      Prevents being able to tab to it from keyboard

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writing this two line is more than enough for your work   yourEditText setKeyListener null    yourEditText setEnabled false

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Use this code   editText setEnabled false   editText setTextColor ContextCompat getColor context  R color black     Disabling editText gives a read-only look and behavior but also changes the text-color to gray so setting its text color is needed

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In XML use   android editable  false    As an example    lt EditText     android id    id EditText1      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android editable  false    gt

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editText setInputType InputType TYPE NULL     As per the docs this prevents the soft keyboard from being displayed  It also prevents pasting  allows scrolling and doesn t alter the visual aspect of the view  However  this also prevents selecting and copying of the text within the view   From my tests setting setInputType to TYPE NULL seems to be functionally equivalent to the depreciated android editable  false   Additionally  android inputType  none  seems to have no noticeable effect

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Try overriding the onLongClick listener of the edit text to remove context menu   EditText myTextField    EditText findViewById R id my edit text id   myTextField setOnLongClickListener new OnLongClickListener          Override     public boolean onLongClick View v            return true

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As android editable    is deprecated  Setting   android clickable  false  android focusable  false  android inputType  none  android cursorVisible  false    will make it  read-only   However  users will still be able to paste into the field or perform any other long click actions  To disable this  simply override onLongClickListener    In Kotlin     myEditText setOnLongClickListener   true      suffices

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If you setEnabled false  then your editText would look disabled  gray  etc   You may not want to change the visual aspect of your editor    A less intrusive way would be to use setFocusable false    I believe that this answers your question closer to your initial intent

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This works for me   EditText setKeyListener null

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android editable  false  has been deprecated  Therefore you cant use it to make the edit text readonly    I have done this using the bellow solution  Here I have used   android inputType  none    android textIsSelectable  true    android focusable  false   Give it try      lt EditText          android id    id et newsgpa university           android layout height  wrap content           android layout width  match parent           android hint   string hint educational institute           android textSize   dimen regular text           android inputType  none           android textIsSelectable  true           android focusable  false           android maxLines  1           android imeOptions  actionNext   gt

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Please use this code    Edittext setEnabled false

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My approach to this has been creating a custom TextWatcher class as follows   class ReadOnlyTextWatcher implements TextWatcher       private final EditText textEdit      private String originalText      private boolean mustUndo   true       public ReadOnlyTextWatcher EditText textEdit            this textEdit   textEdit              Override     public void beforeTextChanged CharSequence charSequence  int i  int i1  int i2            if  mustUndo                originalText   charSequence toString                          Override     public void onTextChanged CharSequence charSequence  int i  int i1  int i2                 Override     public void afterTextChanged Editable editable            if  mustUndo                mustUndo   false              textEdit setText originalText             else               mustUndo   true                      Then you just add that watcher to any field you want to be read only despite being enabled   editText addTextChangedListener new ReadOnlyTextWatcher editText

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This worked for me  taking several of the suggestions above into account  Makes the TextEdit focusable  but if user clicks or focuses  we show a list of selections in a PopupWindow   We are replacing the wacky Spinner widget    TextEdit xml is very generic      public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState                   fEditState    EditText  findViewById R id state edit        fEditState setLongClickable false       fEditState setKeyListener null       fEditState setFocusable true        fEditState setOnFocusChangeListener new View OnFocusChangeListener             public void onFocusChange View v  boolean hasFocus                        if  hasFocus                               showStatesPopup                                          fEditState setOnClickListener new Button OnClickListener             public void onClick View arg0                       showStatesPopup                                  private void showStatesPopup            fPopupWindowStates instantiated in OnCreate        if   fPopupWindowStates isShowing                 show the list view as dropdown         fPopupWindowStates showAsDropDown fEditState  -5  0

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this is my implementation  a little long  but useful to me    With this code you can make EditView Read-only or Normal  even in read-only state  the text can be copied by user  you can change the backgroud to make it look different from a normal EditText   public static TextWatcher setReadOnly final EditText edt  final boolean readOnlyState  TextWatcher remove        edt setCursorVisible  readOnlyState       TextWatcher tw   null      final String text   edt getText   toString        if  readOnlyState                tw   new TextWatcher                  Override             public void afterTextChanged Editable s                                Override               saving the text before change             public void beforeTextChanged CharSequence s  int start  int count  int after                                Override                and replace it with content if it is about to change             public void onTextChanged CharSequence s  int start int before  int count                    edt removeTextChangedListener this                   edt setText text                   edt addTextChangedListener this                                    edt addTextChangedListener tw           return tw        else           edt removeTextChangedListener remove           return remove            the benefit of this code is that  the EditText is displayed as normal EditText but the content is not changeable  The return value should be kept as a variable to one be able revert back from read-only state to normal    to make an EditText read-only  just put it as   TextWatcher tw   setReadOnly editText  true  null     and to make it normal use tw from previous statement   setReadOnly editText  false  tw

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Set this in EdiTextView xml file  android focusable  false

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Try using  editText setEnabled false   editText setClickable false

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set in XML  android inputType  none

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