Disabling of EditText in Android

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In my application  I have an EditText that the user only has Read access not Write access   In code I set android enabled  false     Although the background of EditText changed to dark  when I click on it the keyboard pops up and I can change the text   What should I set to disable EditText

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Try this one  works fine for me   public class CustomEdittext extends EditText    Boolean mIsTextEditor true  public CustomEdittext Context context  AttributeSet attrs        super context  attrs          TODO Auto-generated constructor stub     Override public boolean onCheckIsTextEditor            TODO Auto-generated method stub     return mIsTextEditor       Override public boolean onTouchEvent MotionEvent event           TODO Auto-generated method stub     mIsTextEditor false      Boolean mOnTouchEvent super onTouchEvent event       mIsTextEditor true           return mOnTouchEvent        Note  You need to add this getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS HIDDEN   on your activity or else keyboard will popup at first time

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I use google newly released Material Design Library  In my case  it works when I use android focusable  false  and android cursorVisible  false    lt com google android material textfield TextInputLayout                     android id    id to time input layout                      app endIconMode  custom                      app endIconDrawable   drawable ic clock                      app endIconContentDescription  ToTime                      app endIconTint   color colorAccent                      style   style OutlinedEditTextStyle                      android hint  To Time  gt                        lt com google android material textfield TextInputEditText                         android id    id to time edit text                          android layout width  match parent                          android layout height  wrap content                          android focusable  false                          android cursorVisible  false    gt    lt  com google android material textfield TextInputLayout gt

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This will make your edittext disabled   editText setEnabled false     And by using this   editText setInputType InputType TYPE NULL     Will just make your Edittext not show your softkeyboard  but if it is connected to a physical keyboard  it will let you type

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To disable the functionality of an EditText  just use   EditText setInputType InputType TYPE NULL     in case you want to enable it some way  then you can use   EditText setInputType InputType TYPE CLASS TEXT

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For disable edit EditText  I think we can use focusable OR enable but   Using android enabled     or editText setEnabled       It also changes the text color in EditText to gray  When clicked it have no effect Using android focusable     or editText setFocusable false  - editText setFocusableInTouchMode true   It doesn t change text color of EditText When clicked it highlights the EditText bottom line for about few millisecond   Output

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Simply   editText setEnabled false

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Use TextView instead

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As android editable  false  deprecated  In xml     Use android enabled  false  it s simple  Why use more code    If you want in java class you can also use this programmatically   editText setEnabled false

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From  Asymptote s comment on the accepted answer  use   myEditText setEnabled false   myEditText setInputType InputType TYPE NULL        and Bob s your uncle

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In my case I needed my EditText to scroll text if no  of lines exceed maxLines when its disabled  This implementation worked perfectly for me   private void setIsChatEditTextEditable boolean value        if value                mEdittext setCursorVisible true           mEdittext setSelection chat edittext length               use new EditText getApplicationContext    getKeyListener    if required below         mEdittext setKeyListener new AppCompatEditText getApplicationContext    getKeyListener                 else               mEdittext setCursorVisible false           mEdittext setKeyListener null

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As some answer mention it  if you disable the editText he become gray and if you set focusable false the cursor is displaying   If you would like to do it only with xml this did the trick          lt YourFloatLabel         android layout width  match parent          android layout height  wrap content  gt                lt EditText                 android id    id view ads search select                  android layout width  match parent                  android layout height  wrap content    gt                lt FrameLayout                 android layout width  match parent                  android layout height  match parent                  android focusable  true                  android clickable  true   gt            lt  YourFloatLabel gt    I simply add a FrameLayout appear above the editText and set it focusable and clickable so the editText can t be click

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you can use android focusable  false  but also need to disable cursor otherwise  copy paste function would still work    so  use  android focusable  false  android cursorVisible  false

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Set below properties in class   editText setFocusable false   editText setEnabled false     It will work smoothly as you required

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This works for me   android focusable  false

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if you use android editable  false   eclipse will remind you this message  android editable is deprecated  Use inputType instead    So  I use android focusable  false  instead  it worked well for me

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Set this in your XML code  It works   android focusableInTouchMode  false

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Using android editable  quot false quot  is Depracted  Instead you ll need to Use android focusable  quot false quot

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Disable   FOCUS CLICK CURSOR Disabling focus  click  and cursor visibility does the trick for me   Here is the code in XML   lt EditText     android id  quot   id name quot      android layout width  quot match parent quot      android layout height  quot wrap content quot      android focusable  quot false quot      android cursorVisible  quot false quot      android clickable  quot false quot        gt

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I believe the correct would be to set android editable  false    And if you wonder why my link point to the attributes of TextView  you the answer is because EditText inherits from TextView      EditText is a thin veneer over   TextView that configures itself to be   editable    Update  As mentioned in the comments below  editable is deprecated  since API level 3   You should instead be using inputType  with the value none

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Today I still use editable  false   but also with focusable  false    I think the case we need to make an EditText un-editable  is because we want to keep its EditText style  with that underline  with hint  etc   but it accepts other inputs instead of text  For example a dropdown list   In such use case  we need to have the EditText clickable  thus enabled  false  is not suitable   Setting focusable  false  do this trick  however  I can still long hold on the EditText and paste my own text onto it from clipboard  Depending on your code and handling this can even crash your app   So I also used editable  false  and now everything is great  except the warning

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use EditText setFocusable false   to disable editing EditText setFocusableInTouchMode true  to enable editing

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You can try the following method     private void disableEditText EditText editText        editText setFocusable false       editText setEnabled false       editText setCursorVisible false       editText setKeyListener null       editText setBackgroundColor Color TRANSPARENT         Enabled EditText      Disabled EditText      It works for me and hope it helps you

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As android editable  false  is depricated You can use InputType TYPE NULL on EditText  use like this    editText setInputType InputType TYPE NULL

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android editable  false    is now deprecated and use   YourEditText setInputType InputType TYPE NULL

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There are multiple was how to achieve multiple levels of disabled    editText setShowSoftInputOnFocus false   and editText setFocusable    prevents the EditText from showing keyboard - writing in some text  But cursor is still visible and user can paste in some text    editText setCursorVisible false     hides the cursor  Not sure why would you want to do that tho  User can input text  amp  paste    editText setKeyListener null    I find this way most convenient  There is no way how user can input text  but widget still works with OnClickListener if you want to trigger action when user touches it   editText setEnabled false     completely disables EditText  It is literally  read-only   user cannot input any text in it and  for example  OnClickListener doesn t work with it   TextEdit documentation

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Use this to disable user input   android focusable  false    android editable  false  This method is deprecated one

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