How to make an Edittext not clickable

Question

I want to make an Editext only focus when I programmably tell it to and not allow the user to press on the one he wants. Is this possible?

I tried

android:longClickable="false"
android:clickable="false"

But neither worked.

For some reason people are thinking the following solves my problem, but that person is trying to make an edit text not editable, where I am trying to make an edit text only not focusable by clicking

EditText not editable

Try setting `android:focusable` and `android:focusableInTouchMode` to false — ashkhn, Jan 19 '17 at 06:24

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 19 '17 at 06:22

7

Try with

    android:focusable="false"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="false"

answered Jan 19 '17 at 06:22

IntelliJ Amiya

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jmckie · Answer 2 · 2019-07-23T10:13:48.607

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I ran into the same issue and solved it by using:

.setEnabled(false) and .setClickable(false)

so use this for your code:

.setEnabled(false);
.setClickable(false);

edited Jul 23 '19 at 10:13

answered Apr 06 '17 at 09:51

jmckie

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it still stealing clicks from the parent so it is still technically clickable even when it is not doing anything – bio007 Jan 29 '20 at 13:47

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 19 '17 at 16:42

Not sure if you ever got this answered, but I had to do the same thing and although this may not be concise, I know it works:

First set the keyListener to null:

myEditText.setKeyListener(null);

Next set an OnTouch listener to the EditText to do whatever action you want:

myEditText.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent motionEvent) {
                if(motionEvent.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP){
                    //Do whatever action you need to do here. 
                }
                return false;
            }
});

From there, you can simply insert your actions into the OnTouch listener ACTION_UP action tag. In my case, I needed to popup a Dialog with a listview for them to choose something and then set the respective text into the EditText.

Hope that helps.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 03 '19 at 10:06

PROGRAMATICALLY

I ran into the same issue and solved it by using:

.setEnabled(false), .setClickable(false) and .setFocuseable(false)

so use this for your code:

et.setEnabled(false);
et.setClickable(false);
et.setFocuseable(false);

USING XML

android:focusable="false"

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 19 '17 at 06:23

0

Try with this code

EditText et = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.your_edit_text);
et.setFocusable(false);
et.setClickable(true);

answered Jan 19 '17 at 06:23

Navas pk

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It doesnt allow programically changing it – Adam Katz Jan 19 '17 at 17:09

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 19 '17 at 06:33

Immediate parent of the EditText should steal the focus.For example:

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
    android:focusable="true"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true">

    <EditText
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:hint="enter.." />
</LinearLayout>

Noldor · Answer 7 · 2020-12-10T21:16:19.730

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editText.isEnabled = false // makes it`s color grey
editText.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#DE000000")) //change color if needed

edited Dec 10 '20 at 21:16

answered Dec 10 '20 at 21:07

Noldor

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Jul 27 '23 at 13:14

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may be you need to use this line

        android:inputType="none"

in your xml this line will prevent keyboard from showing

answered Jul 27 '23 at 13:14

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score -1 · Answer 9 · answered Jan 19 '17 at 06:28

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In the xml file try using the following code-

    android:clickable="false"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

use it on the EditText. I haven't tried it but hope it works.

answered Jan 19 '17 at 06:28

AshAR

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Doesnt do anything, i can still click to change focus – Adam Katz Jan 19 '17 at 17:11
change to `focusableInTouchMode="false"` – Nimitz14 Sep 05 '18 at 15:03

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