Any way to disable EditText from editing in Android ICS but still make it highlightable?

Question

I'm making an application that will store a page of text. This application should read highlighted text shown on the screen and pronounce it for the user. The problem is that when I disable the EditText from editing, I can't set highlight in the EditText anymore.

I use this code for disabling:

contentBox.setKeyListener(null);

And this code for setting highlight:

contentBox.setSelection(0,findNextLineIndex(0));

Any idea? Thanks.

I found another way to achieve this. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4769307/hide-softkeyboard-in-single-activity-android — Gorn Kongprasopkij, Aug 20 '12 at 11:49
by letting edittext still editable. just hide the softkeyboard. — Gorn Kongprasopkij, Aug 20 '12 at 11:57

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 20 '12 at 11:20

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I think you can use android:editable="false" to disable it; then u can get its focus :) cheers :)

answered Aug 20 '12 at 11:20

Manoj Kumar

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normally, I want to use edittext as textview but still can set highlight on it. it works on ginger bread. but the highlight doesn't show up on ics. – Gorn Kongprasopkij Aug 20 '12 at 11:35
can u show me your code or some snippets? i may get some more idea :) – Manoj Kumar Aug 20 '12 at 12:07

Any way to disable EditText from editing in Android ICS but still make it highlightable?

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