Disable soft-keyboard from EditText but still allow copy/paste?

Question

Hi I\'m making custom dialer so I create my own input pad.

The problem is how do I disable the EditText but still allow cut/copy/paste?

Answer 1

try this

 EditText et = ... // your EditText

et.setKeyListener(null) //makes the EditText non-editable so, it acts like a TextView.

No need to subclass. The main difference between this and making your EditText non-focusable, is that the EditText still has its own cursor - you can select text, etc. All it does is suppress the IME from popping up its own soft keyboard.