How to make EditText that cannot be editted?

Question

I am trying to make the editText that shows the text but not as editable type. I cant use textview there because i am using same component for entering the values. How to achieve it? Any help is really appreciated and thanks in advance.

See this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/660151/how-to-replicate-androideditable-false-in-code — TotoroTotoro, Sep 20 '11 at 04:30

score 21 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 20 '11 at 05:08

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editText.setFocusable(false); editText.setClickable(false); the two property which turn EditText to non focusable and unclickable which leads to a non editable Edittext

edited Sep 20 '11 at 05:08

Andro Selva

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answered Sep 20 '11 at 04:29

Mohammed Azharuddin Shaikh

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Thank you lot... This is what i was expecting... – Pattabi Raman Sep 20 '11 at 04:36
How to do this for buttons? This code ot working for buttons...? – Pattabi Raman Sep 20 '11 at 04:40
ya, you can do for that button also – Mohammed Azharuddin Shaikh Sep 20 '11 at 04:42
If that button contains popup method such as showDialog(0) ? i.e date and time picker, this code which you gave wont work ah? – Pattabi Raman Sep 20 '11 at 04:45
obiviously, as it disable your button click – Mohammed Azharuddin Shaikh Sep 20 '11 at 04:47
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ya.. I have commented the functionality and your coding works... For editText, Long clicking the edittext is making to paste the clipboard contents. Can i give editText.setLongClickable(false); ? – Pattabi Raman Sep 20 '11 at 04:55
It has worked Perfectly... Thanks for the timing Help... – Pattabi Raman Sep 20 '11 at 04:59

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 20 '11 at 04:39

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Make EditText Read only.

Like this:

android:enabled="false"

Or from code: edittext.setEnabled(false) or edittext.setFocusable(false) or edittext.setFocusableinTouchMode(false)

edited Sep 20 '11 at 04:39

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answered Sep 20 '11 at 04:36

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 20 '11 at 04:35

try this....

EditText.setFilters(new InputFilter[] {new InputFilter()
{
    @Override
    public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start,
                int end, Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) 
    {
        return source.length() < 1 ? dest.subSequence(dstart, dend) : "";

    }
 }
});

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 20 '11 at 04:38

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try like this

android:editable="false"

answered Sep 20 '11 at 04:38

ilango j

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This solution has since been deprecated. – Lokerim Aug 21 '13 at 20:14

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 20 '11 at 04:36

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Simply, open the layout file and add android:editable="false" attribute.

<EditText 
  android:id="@+id/editText1" 
  android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
 android:layout_width="match_parent"
 android:editable="false"
>

answered Sep 20 '11 at 04:36

KV Prajapati

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score -5 · Answer 6 · edited Sep 20 '11 at 04:39

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hi if you use edit text so u give this property in edit text

android:hint="write any thing" , but dont use Android:text=""

edited Sep 20 '11 at 04:39

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answered Sep 20 '11 at 04:36

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For that you can use TextView – xdevs23 Sep 08 '16 at 12:28
How does it deal to the question? – Spectorsky Jan 02 '20 at 11:53

How to make EditText that cannot be editted?

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