Android Hide Soft Keyboard from EditText while not losing cursor

Question

I\'ve come about as far as this which gets me halfway there, but not quite. I have a dialer Fragment that has all the usual Buttons to enter a numb

Answer 1

Setting the flag textIsSelectable to true disables the soft keyboard.

You can set it in your xml layout like this:

Or programmatically, like this:

EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText);
editText.setTextIsSelectable(true);

The cursor will still be present, you'll be able to select/copy/cut/paste but the soft keyboard will never show.