How to prevent keyboard to show in EditText onTouch?

Question

What I want to do is this: I have an EditText and when the user click on it, the user can move the caret position, same as the EditText, but without showing the keyboard.

I've tried with setInputType(0); and it hides completly the keyboard but the cursor doesn't appears.

Is there any way to do this?

Thank's

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 26 '13 at 16:34

The following tricks works for me. Caret and soft keyboard both active onTouch event of editText. So Call touch event and then hide the keyboard manually.

myEditText.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {

    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
        final boolean ret = dialerNumber.onTouchEvent(event);
        final InputMethodManager imm = ((InputMethodManager) myContext
                .getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE));
        try{
            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(myEditText.getApplicationWindowToken(), 0);
        }catch(Exception e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return ret;
});

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 17 '12 at 01:42

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I haven't tried suppressing the keyboard altogether, but I have hidden the soft keyboard manually before using the InputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow method.

answered Jan 17 '12 at 01:42

Rich

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Yeah that works hidding the keyboard, but it hides the cursor button. What I want to do is to have the EditText, and when is clicked, show the little cursor that allows to move the caret in the text, but I think is not possible to do that – cbedoya Jan 17 '12 at 08:15

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 27 '12 at 04:23

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Does this work?

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN)

edited Jul 27 '12 at 04:23

Anthony

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answered Jan 17 '12 at 05:32

Alex Lockwood

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well it hides the keyboard, but i want to keep the cursor button under the EditText, but I don't know if that is possible – cbedoya Jan 17 '12 at 08:13

How to prevent keyboard to show in EditText onTouch?

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