How to make an EditText uneditable/disabled

Question

I have a EditText in which the user should not be able to provide input. So I tried disabling it,by

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

But still when I press the "next" button in the softKeyboard from some other EditText it directs me to the one which should not be editable and I am able to insert values into it. How to avoid this?

have you checked http://stackoverflow.com/questions/910973/why-can-i-type-into-a-disabled-edittext — olix20, Jul 18 '11 at 09:51
your que is similar to this que http://stackoverflow.com/questions/660151/how-to-replicate-androideditable-false-in-code — Avi Kumar, Jul 18 '11 at 10:02
The whole point of the **EditText** is to allow the user to **edit** its contents. Is there any reason you're not using TextView? — Marmoy, Jul 18 '11 at 10:19

score 39 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 07 '12 at 10:33

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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>

edited Dec 07 '12 at 10:33

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answered Nov 08 '12 at 06:41

Khurram Shehzad

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it is not an acceptable answer why because if we long click on EditText we are able to paste new data using this solution. and the correct solution is EditTextInput.setKeyListener(null); – Venkat May 06 '15 at 07:00
@Venkat I agree that the answer shouldn't have been accepted. We just experienced a problem where `isFocusable = false` still allowed to long-tap and copy-paste anything in the input that was supposed to be disabled. Your answer actually does what was expected. – NeverwinterMoon Mar 22 '17 at 11:38

score 36 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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don't messed up with your self. just simple to work use below one

First, save the EditText's key listener:

KeyListener mKeyListener = yourTextView.getKeyListener();
yourTextView.setKeyListener(null);

Then if you want to enable editing again, assign the saved listener back:

yourTextView.setKeyListener(mKeyListener);

source

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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answered Apr 21 '14 at 12:17

codercat

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This is the best soultion if you want to do this from code. – Avi Levin Apr 04 '15 at 11:56
What to do if I want to enable it after disabling it? – kirtan403 Nov 21 '15 at 15:38
@kirtan403 set your textview.setKeyListener(your listener); – codercat Nov 23 '15 at 09:09
If you guys wanted to enable editing afterwards, you need to first store/save the KeyListener via edittext.getKeyListener() and then assigning it back later. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10933056/edit-text-key-listener – Neon Warge May 24 '16 at 12:33
Note that using `setInputType` afterwards resets the key listener. – Nicolas Jan 26 '17 at 02:18
this is wrong. you can still long press and cut/copy/paste etc. – isudansh Sep 26 '17 at 10:36
This is better than setEnable which causes keyboard collapse. – 林果皞 Jul 24 '18 at 09:18

Azim Ansari · Answer 3 · 2016-01-29T04:53:37.007

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yourEditText.setKeyListener(null);

No need to remove focus and setting clickable false.

Just remove key listener and you are done.

Also tested with Android 6.0

edited Jan 29 '16 at 04:53

answered Nov 18 '15 at 08:41

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This is great because it won't make the EditText text color change. – manueGE Jan 12 '17 at 08:46

Andro Selva · Answer 4 · 2011-07-19T04:46:07.577

Ok. I did something like this and got the result.

    edittext.setEnabled(false);
    edittext.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
    edittext.setClickable(false);
    edittext.setFocusable(false);
    edittext.setFilters(new InputFilter[] { new textChange() });
    edittext.setInputType(0);

       class textChange implements InputFilter {
    public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end,
            Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) {

        return dest.subSequence(dstart, dend);
    }
}

score 5 · Answer 5 · answered May 11 '17 at 12:25

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android:focusable="false"
android:longClickable="false"

Adding these two fields to your EditText will disables the focus and also disables the copy pasting data into your EditText field.

answered May 11 '17 at 12:25

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Was looking for an XML-only solution and this seems to work fine. – ban-geoengineering Nov 01 '20 at 22:44

score 4 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 18 '11 at 09:55

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Try adding

edittext.setFocusable(false); edittest.setFocusableInTouchMode(false);

answered Jul 18 '11 at 09:55

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`setFocusable(false)` will automatically disable `setFocusableInTouchMode` – Nirmal May 26 '14 at 20:55

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 08 '16 at 03:03

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Take a look at this

editText.setEnabled(false); and editText.setFocusable(false); will achieve.

answered Aug 08 '16 at 03:03

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Piash Sarker · Answer 8 · 2017-01-05T12:14:22.433

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In your EditText Xml Code . Paste below line.

android:focusable="false"

edited Jan 05 '17 at 12:14

answered Jan 04 '17 at 09:29

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score 0 · Answer 9 · edited Jan 27 '17 at 10:19

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android:focusable="false"

worked for me.

edited Jan 27 '17 at 10:19

J. Chomel

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answered Jan 27 '17 at 10:00

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While this code snippet may solve the question, [including an explanation](http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/114762/explaining-entirely-code-based-answers) really helps to improve the quality of your post. Remember that you are answering the question for readers in the future, and those people might not know the reasons for your code suggestion. – J. Chomel Jan 27 '17 at 10:19

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Jun 14 '17 at 10:21

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Use imeOptions attribute to change that button in softKeyboard to done

android:imeOptions="actionDone"

add it to EditText just previous to the one you want to disable.

answered Jun 14 '17 at 10:21

navjot_singh

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score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Jul 21 '17 at 22:22

It might be somebody helpful. I've found one implementation:

@Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
        //for edit text
        return locked;
    }

where locked is locked state.

of course, i have to use editText.setOnTouchListener(<listener>);

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