Disable, reenable and the soft keyboard does not appear on touch

Question

Take a look at this example:

public class TestEditSoftKbdActivity extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    findViewById(R.id.editText1).setFocusable(false);
    findViewById(R.id.editText1).setClickable(false);
    findViewById(R.id.editText1).setEnabled(false);

    findViewById(R.id.editText1).setFocusable(true);
    findViewById(R.id.editText1).setClickable(true);
    findViewById(R.id.editText1).setEnabled(true);

    findViewById(R.id.editText1).invalidate();
    findViewById(R.id.editText1).requestLayout();
}

}

After this sequence of calls the edit text view would no longer pop up its soft input method upon being touched :(

Could someone explain what is going wrong here?

It could be something simple - try setting enabled before focusable - it's entirely possible that setFocusable doesn't do anything on a disabled view. — Delyan, Aug 22 '11 at 10:59
@Delyan - well reasoning, +1 for that alone. Only it did not help no matter how I have rearranged them — kellogs, Aug 22 '11 at 18:04

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

If you want to close soft keyboard for your text view follow this link. Here is a solution for you. But you need to define your own TextView to do that. He suggests using;

public class NoImeEditText extends EditText {
    public EditTextEx(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) { 
       super(context, attrs);     
    }      
    @Override      
    public boolean onCheckIsTextEditor() {   
        return false;     
    }        
}

Hope it works.

Disable, reenable and the soft keyboard does not appear on touch

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