How to make EditText not editable through XML in Android

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Can anyone tell me how to make an EditText not editable via XML  I tried setting android editable to false  but   it is deprecated  and it didn t work

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lt EditText     android id    id txtDate      android layout width  140dp      android layout height  wrap content      android layout marginLeft  5dp      android layout marginRight  10dp      android layout marginTop  2dp      android clickable  false      android cursorVisible  false      android gravity  center    gt    and use following    txtDate setKeyListener null

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Please try this   it may help some people  lt EditText   android enabled  quot false quot  android textColor  quot  000000 quot   gt

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Use this simple code   textView setKeyListener null     It works   Edit   To add KeyListener later  do following  1   set key listener to tag of textView  textView setTag textView getKeyListener     textView setKeyListener null     2   get key listener from tag and set it back to textView  textView setKeyListener  KeyListener  textView getTag

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Kotlin extension option  fun AppCompatAutoCompleteTextView setEditable editable  Boolean        if   editable            this tag   this keyListener         this keyListener   null       else           if this tag is KeyListener                this setEditable keyListener   this setEditable tag as KeyListener

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I ve tried the following   codeEditText setInputType InputType TYPE NULL    this codeEditText setOnFocusChangeListener new OnFocusChangeListener         Override   public void onFocusChange View v  boolean hasFocus         if  hasFocus           pickCode                     this codeEditText setOnClickListener new OnClickListener         Override   public void onClick View v         pickCode                but the problem was that if the edit text is the first in the form then it gets the focus and the pickCode   code which launches a new activity is called straight away  So I modified the code as follows and it seems to work quite well  except I cannot set the focus on the text edit but I don t need to    itemCodeEditText setFocusable false    this itemCodeEditText setOnClickListener new OnClickListener         Override   public void onClick View v         pickItem                Best Regards   Comments welcome   John Goche

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disable from XML  one line     android focusable  false    re-enable from Java  if need be  also one line    editText setFocusableInTouchMode true

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You could use android editable  false  but I would really advise you  to use setEnabled false  as it provides a visual clue to the user that  the control cannot be edited  The same visual cue is used by all  disabled widgets and consistency is good

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I resolve this with a dialog       AlertDialog dialog      EditText  editID      TextView  txtID     Override     protected void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState            super onCreate savedInstanceState           setContentView R layout activity principal            txtID    TextView  findViewById R id  txtID           dialog   new AlertDialog Builder this  create             editID   new EditText this            editID setInputType InputType TYPE NUMBER FLAG SIGNED           dialog setTitle  Numero do Registro             dialog setView  editID           dialog setButton DialogInterface BUTTON POSITIVE   IR   new DialogInterface OnClickListener                  Override             public void onClick DialogInterface dialog  int which                     txtID setText  editID getText                     toId Integer parseInt   editID getText   toString                                         dialog setButton DialogInterface BUTTON NEGATIVE   CANCELAR   new DialogInterface OnClickListener                  Override             public void onClick DialogInterface dialog  int which                    dialog dismiss                                        txtID setOnClickListener new View OnClickListener                  Override             public void onClick View v                     txtID setText   editID getText                         editID setText                      dialog show

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If you want to do it in java code just use this line to disable it   editText setEnabled false     And this to enable it   editText setEnabled true

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They made  editable  deprecated but didn t provide a working corresponding one in inputType   By the way  does inputType  none  has any effect  Using it or not does not make any difference as far as I see   For example  the default editText is said to be single line  But you have to select an inputType for it to be single line  And if you select  none   it is still multiline

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Let your Edittext be   EditText editText    editText setKeyListener null      will work but it just not listening to keys   User can see a cursor on the edittext   You can try editText setEnabled false    That means user cannot see the cursor  To simply say it will became TextView

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Add this to your EditText xml file    lt EditText             android clickable  false           android cursorVisible  false           android focusable  false           android focusableInTouchMode  false  gt   lt  EditText gt    It will do the same effect as android editable  false   Worked for me  hope it ll work for you too

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Try this code  It s working in my project  so it will work in your project   android editable  false

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Short answer   I used android focusable  false  and it worked  Click listening is also working now

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I tried to do   textView setInputType  InputType TYPE NULL      which should work  but for me it did not   I finished with this code   textView setKeyListener new NumberKeyListener         public int getInputType             return InputType TYPE NULL             protected char   getAcceptedChars             return new char                   which works perfectly

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Just use  android enabled  false   This will also give an appearance to the EditText which will make it look not editable

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In addition to  mahe madi you can try this as well  editText setEnabled false   editor setTextColor Color BLACK     This method will hide cursor  lose focus and more importantly set text color to black behaving like TextView   And to revert Back to editText simply do this to gain all the properties of EditText   editText setEnabled true     Hope it Helps

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As mentioned in other answers  you can do a setEnabled false   but since you are asking how to set it via XML  here is how to do it   Add the following attribute to your EditText   android enabled  false

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I use EditText setFocusable false  and set true again if I want to edit

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Try this     android inputType  none

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As you mentioned android editable is deprecated  android inputType  none  should be used instead but it does not work due to a bug  https   code google com p android issues detail id 2854   But you can achieve the same thing by using focusable   Via XML    lt EditText             android focusable  false    lt  EditText gt    From code     EditText  findViewById R id LoginNameEditText   setFocusable false

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android focusable  false   android clickable  false   android longClickable  false    The  longClickable  attribute disables the long press actions that cause the  Paste  and or  Select All  options to show up as a tooltip

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When I want an activity to not focus on the EditText and also not show keyboard when clicked  this is what worked for me    Adding attributes to the main layout   android descendantFocusability  beforeDescendants  android focusableInTouchMode  true    and then the EditText field  android focusable  false  android focusableInTouchMode  false    Here is an example    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt RelativeLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      xmlns app  http   schemas android com apk res-auto      xmlns tools  http   schemas android com tools      android id    id activity home      android background   drawable bg landing      android layout width  match parent      android layout height  match parent      android paddingBottom  0dp      android paddingLeft  0dp      android paddingRight  0dp      android paddingTop   dimen activity vertical margin      android descendantFocusability  beforeDescendants      android focusableInTouchMode  true      tools context  com woppi woppi samplelapp HomeActivity  gt        lt EditText         android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content          android background   null          android inputType  textPersonName          android ems  10          android id    id fromEditText          android layout weight  1          android hint   string placeholder choose language          android textColor   android color white          android textColorHint   android color darker gray          android focusable  false          android focusableInTouchMode  false          android onClick  onSelectFromLanguage    gt    lt  RelativeLayout gt

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Try   setInputType InputType TYPE NULL

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This way did the job for me  i can selec and copy to clipboard  but i can t modify or paste   android enable  true  android textIsSelectable  true  android inputType  none

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if you want to click it  but not want to edit it  try           android focusable  false

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This combination worked for me    lt EditText      gt      android longClickable  false      android cursorVisible  false      android focusableInTouchMode  false   lt  EditText gt

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android editable is deprecated so use inputType instead       lt EditText         android id    id editText x          android layout width  0dp          android layout height  fill parent          android layout weight  70          android inputType  none          android hint   string enter x    gt

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I have faced same problem but after observation I found that android editable  false  is only working when inputtype  android inputType  ANY VALUE   is not given in the Edittext   Remove inputType from EditText and use editable   false  its working fine

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