Disable EditText blinking cursor

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Does anyone know how to disable the blinking cursor in an EditText view

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add android focusableInTouchMode  quot true quot  in root layout  when edit text will be clicked at that time cursor will be shown

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You can use either the xml attribute android cursorVisible  quot false quot  or programatically   java  view setCursorVisible false  kotlin  view isCursorVisible   false

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In kotlin your edittext isCursorVisible   false

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Change focus to another view  ex  Any textview or Linearlayout in the XML  using    android focusableInTouchMode  true  android focusable  true   set addTextChangedListener to edittext in Activity  and then on aftertextchanged of Edittext put edittext clearFocus      This will enable the cursor when keyboard is open and disable when keyboard is closed

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simple add this line into your parent layout   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt LinearLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      xmlns tools  http   schemas android com tools      android layout width  match parent      android layout height  match parent      android orientation  vertical      android focusable  true      android focusableInTouchMode  true  gt        lt EditText         android inputType  text          android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content    gt    lt  LinearLayout gt

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Perfect Solution that goes further to the goal  Goal  Disable the blinking curser when EditText is not in focus  and enable the blinking curser when EditText is in focus  Below also opens keyboard when EditText is clicked  and hides it when you press done in the keyboard   1  Set in your xml under your EditText    android cursorVisible  false    2  Set onClickListener   iEditText setOnClickListener editTextClickListener    OnClickListener editTextClickListener   new OnClickListener            public void onClick View v                  if  v getId      iEditText getId                           iEditText setCursorVisible true                         3  then onCreate  capture the event when done is pressed using OnEditorActionListener to your EditText  and then setCursorVisible false      onCreate     iEditText setOnEditorActionListener new OnEditorActionListener                   Override             public boolean onEditorAction TextView v  int actionId                      KeyEvent event                        iEditText setCursorVisible false                   if  event    null amp  amp   event getKeyCode      KeyEvent KEYCODE ENTER                         InputMethodManager in    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE                       in hideSoftInputFromWindow iEditText getApplicationWindowToken   InputMethodManager HIDE NOT ALWAYS                                     return false

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If you want to ignore the Edittext from the starting of activity  android focusable and android focusableInTouchMode will help you inshallah    lt LinearLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      android id    id linearLayout7  android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  wrap content      android focusable  true  android focusableInTouchMode  true  gt       This LinearLayout with your Edittext

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In my case  I wanted to enable disable the cursor when the edit is focused   In your Activity    Override public boolean dispatchTouchEvent MotionEvent ev        if  ev getAction      MotionEvent ACTION DOWN            View v   getCurrentFocus            if  v instanceof EditText                EditText edit     EditText  v               Rect outR   new Rect                edit getGlobalVisibleRect outR               Boolean isKeyboardOpen    outR contains  int ev getRawX     int ev getRawY                 System out print  Is Keyboard      isKeyboardOpen               if  isKeyboardOpen                    System out print  Entro al IF                    edit clearFocus                    InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  this getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE                   imm hideSoftInputFromWindow edit getWindowToken    0                              edit setCursorVisible  isKeyboardOpen                        return super dispatchTouchEvent ev

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You can use following code for enabling and disabling edit text cursor by programmatically      To Enable cursor       editText requestFocus        editText setCursorVisible true        To Disable cursor       editText setCursorVisible false        Using XML enable disable cursor      android cursorVisible  false true     android focusable  false true       To make edit text Selectable to  copy cut paste select select all       editText setTextIsSelectable true        To focus on touch mode write following lines in XML     android focusableInTouchMode  true    android clickable  true    android focusable  true        programmatically     editText requestFocusFromTouch         To clear focus on touch mode      editText clearFocus

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rootLayout findFocus   clearFocus

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The problem with setting cursor visibility to true and false may be a problem since it removes the cursor until you again set it again and at the same time field is editable which is not good user experience   so instead of using   setCursorVisible false    just do it like this          editText2 setFocusableInTouchMode false          editText2 clearFocus           editText2 setFocusableInTouchMode true    The above code removes the focus which in turn removes the cursor  And enables it again so that you can again touch it and able to edit it  Just like normal user experience

[android] Disable EditText blinking cursor

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