Make EditText ReadOnly

Question

I want to make a read-only EditText view. The XML to do this code seems to be android:editable=\"false\", but I want to do this in code.

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Answer 1

This worked for me, taking several of the suggestions above into account. Makes the TextEdit focusable, but if user clicks or focuses, we show a list of selections in a PopupWindow. (We are replacing the wacky Spinner widget). TextEdit xml is very generic...

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    ....  
    fEditState = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.state_edit);

    fEditState.setLongClickable(false);
    fEditState.setKeyListener(null);
    fEditState.setFocusable(true);

    fEditState.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
        public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus)
        {
            if (hasFocus)
            {
               showStatesPopup();

            }
        }
    });

    fEditState.setOnClickListener(new Button.OnClickListener(){

        public void onClick(View arg0)
        {
           showStatesPopup();
        }
    });
    ....
}

private void showStatesPopup()
{
    // fPopupWindowStates instantiated in OnCreate()

    if (!fPopupWindowStates.isShowing()) {
        // show the list view as dropdown
        fPopupWindowStates.showAsDropDown(fEditState, -5, 0);
    }
}