Android - EditText not editable and not selectable

java android android-edittext

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Solution 1

Sorry guys, at least for my setup (Sdk Version 25 with AppCompatActivity)

editText.setFocusable(false);

will still let me push the return button of the virtual keyboard, adding lines to the text. If you add

editText.setEnabled(false);

this behaviour stopps, however, the text is greyed out.

Therefore, I think the following would be a better solution:

editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

Solution 2

This works fine; just set focusable property of your edittext to "false" and you are done.

<EditText
        android:id="@+id/EditTextInput"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:focusable="false"
        android:gravity="right"
        android:cursorVisible="true">
    </EditText>

Solution 3

I would implement the following code:

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

Which should prevent interacting with the EditText. Read more about the View class here since EditText extends from it:

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#setFocusable(boolean)

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Author by

Vin

Updated on June 04, 2022

Comments

Vin almost 2 years
In my activity code I have these lines
```
EditText editText=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText);
editText.setTextIsSelectable(false);
```
What I want to achieve is a EditText uneditable and unselectable. With the previous line I try to achieve the second option, but it'doesn't work. The EditText is still selectable.

In order to make the EditText uneditable I have not found any method such as setEditable or similar. I read about setting InputType but I had no success.

However the unselectable constraint can be weakened. My main goal is that the text inside the EditText cannot change for any reason. For these reason the EditRext could be selectable but I want that no user can cut the text.

I want no XML but only Java code. All these things are needed to to programmatically.
Vin over 6 years

setEnabled(false) disable the EditText. It's a drastic solution.
Vin over 6 years

It doesn't matter. setFocusable(false) is the way.
Vin over 6 years

setClickable(false) seems to do no difference. setFocusable(false) is the right way.
gi097 over 6 years

@Vin only using setFocusable() does not disable it, a user can still paste data to the EditText.
Vin over 6 years

I didn't think it. Thank you.
Vin over 6 years

Wait wait wait. setFocusable(false) is not enough. Because text can be pasted into theEditText, and this is not a good thing.
Vin over 6 years

Instead to use setEnabled(false). I used setFocusable(false), setClickable(false) and setLongClickable(false). This seems to prevent text pasting inside the EditText
Vin over 6 years

@KalaBalik It doesn't matter means that the solution is understandable. In this case android:focusable="false" is exactly setFocusable(false). Sometimes XML is not fully translatable to Java code, in that case I will not accepted the question.
Vin over 6 years

The magic number 0 in the setInputType() method, what does it mean?
kalabalik over 6 years

The docs say: >"There is no content type. The text is not editable."
Vin over 6 years

I tried. The only input type seems to make the EditText not clickable and not long-clickable. I don't know if setClickable(false) and setLongClickable(false) are unnecessary now.
kalabalik over 6 years

Actually, I can't reproduce what @Vin said earlier about the click and the long click. If no one intervenes soon, I will take out lines 2 and 3 from my answer. Lines 1 and 4 suffice.
Vin over 6 years

It seems that with only line 4 (setInputType(0)) the EditText is not editable and not selectable.
Vin over 6 years

setFocusable(false) is only if anyone would that all EditTexts are not highlited when are clicked.
lucidbrot about 5 years

Perfect for making an EditText that is actually not editable. This answer also avoids the keyboard showing.