Android EditText disable edit but allow scrolling

Question

I know that is possible to disable editing EditText.

Answers is here, and here.

But, when i disable EditText it also disabled vertical scroll in this text.

Is it possible to disable only editing, but allow scrolling?

Try process onTextChanged or some other events instead of setEnable(false) — BNK, Oct 01 '15 at 09:29
@BNK onTextChanged not will be applicable for this problem. onTextChanged called when user type text. — Sergey Shustikov, Oct 01 '15 at 09:31
@Sree programmatically. Like that http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4297763/disabling-of-edittext-in-android/29433912#29433912 — Sergey Shustikov, Oct 01 '15 at 09:34
editText.setEnabled(false); editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL); — Sree, Oct 01 '15 at 09:35
Perhaps this will help you ; take a look [here][1] [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22799770/allow-edittext-to-scroll-while-disabled — mariuss, Oct 01 '15 at 09:35
I have no PC to test now. I mean you can try some events that prevent the keys entered but not prevent touch :-) — BNK, Oct 01 '15 at 09:40
@BNK, no one help me, so i just put `EditText` into `RelativeLayout` and put `TextView` above him. — Sergey Shustikov, Oct 05 '15 at 21:43
I have tested my answer before posting here, have you tried? I think you can create a new project with only an editText such as `` then test my code — BNK, Oct 05 '15 at 21:45
@ywwynm answer can be another working way, you can look at the comments between me and him :) — BNK, Oct 05 '15 at 21:47

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered May 08 '18 at 13:34

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    editText.setFocusableInTouchMode(false);
    editText.clearFocus();

answered May 08 '18 at 13:34

Khaled Lela

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This is the best solution. Clean and elegant as you can toggle back and forth without losing events. Thanks!!! – Steven Marcus Jul 04 '18 at 17:33
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This has the problem that it is still possible to copy and paste text into the field. To fix this set: editText.isLongClickable = false – axlrtr Jun 29 '21 at 12:31
Good solution. Thank you. – PhongBM Aug 02 '21 at 09:47

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 18 '17 at 14:58

Use this porperties in your EdittText:

android:enabled="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="false"
android:scrollbars="vertical"

Your EditText will be enable, but not focusable for edit. Then, you will able to scroll (in vertical on this case) and will not able to edit.

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 09 '16 at 13:25

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I've found that just disabling the key listener, focusable and cursor seems to work:

editText.setKeyListener( null );
editText.setFocusable( false );
editText.setCursorVisible(false);

As long as you keep the edit text enabled you seem to be able to scroll the text still.

answered Mar 09 '16 at 13:25

Michael

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If I disable the EditText widget this way how do I enable it back? What should I pass to setKeyListener? – Varvara Kalinina May 30 '17 at 12:46

ywwynm · Answer 4 · 2015-10-02T02:43:10.173

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editText.setKeyListener(null) should help you.

edited Oct 02 '15 at 02:43

answered Oct 02 '15 at 01:32

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Your answer does not work in my phone :), have you checked? – BNK Oct 02 '15 at 01:37
@BNK Yes, I use it to disable edit in `EditText` and it can still scroll. – ywwynm Oct 02 '15 at 02:27
How did you declare editText inside layout file? Mine is `` – BNK Oct 02 '15 at 02:40
@BNK I don't have scrollbars="vertical". – ywwynm Oct 02 '15 at 02:42
I just remove scrollbars, setOnKeyListener(null) still does not work for my phone (Android 4.1.2) – BNK Oct 02 '15 at 02:43
Ok, setKeyListenter works with `` – BNK Oct 02 '15 at 02:48
@BNK Why are you using `singleLine="true"`? It seems that with this property you are not likely to scroll since the `EditText` has only one line of content. – ywwynm Oct 02 '15 at 02:50
In my app, if not set singleLine true, the editText expands to multiple lines, and no scroll :), can you show your layout of editText? – BNK Oct 02 '15 at 02:52
Use `editText.setInputType(0);` no need to set `android:singleLine="true"` – BNK Oct 02 '15 at 02:53

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 02 '15 at 01:37

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If you wrap your EditText in a ScrollView then you should be able to preserve the scroll behavior.

<ScrollView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <EditText ... />

</ScrollView>

answered Oct 02 '15 at 01:37

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 03 '18 at 17:35

Try to use these two attributes to your editext it will make your editext only scrollable not editable android:inputType="none" android:textIsSelectable="true" Below is the example

               <EditText
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:gravity="start"
                android:padding="20dp"
                android:layout_margin="10dp"
                android:textSize="@dimen/text_size"
                android:inputType="none"
                android:textIsSelectable="true"
                android:textStyle="normal"
                android:id="@+id/toeditext"
                android:textColor="@android:color/white"
                />

Android EditText disable edit but allow scrolling

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