Disable editing/text input and paste from clipboard of EditText

Question

We can disable editing text in EditText like this https://stackoverflow.com/a/8942552/7767664d

EditText.setFocusable(false)

But still we can paste some text to this view when you do long tap on it and paste button pops up

https://stackoverflow.com/a/12331404/10182897 might this will help you — Ashish, May 08 '20 at 06:28

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 08 '20 at 06:29

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Otherwise disable long click on edittext :

EditText.setLongClickable(false);

or directly in the xml:

android:longClickable="false"

answered May 08 '20 at 06:29

Ashish

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 08 '20 at 06:39

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JAVA

editTextOBJ.setLongClickable(false);
editTextOBJ.setTextIsSelectable(false);

XML

 android:longClickable="false"
 android:textIsSelectable="false"

answered May 08 '20 at 06:39

IntelliJ Amiya

2 Answers2