How to disable copy/paste from/to EditText

Question

In my application, there is a registration screen, where i do not want the user to be able to copy/paste text into the EditText field. I have set an onLon

Answer 1

@Zain Ali, your answer works on API 11. I just wanted to suggest a way to do in on API 10 as well. Since I had to maintain my project API on that version, I was constantly playing with the functions available in 2.3.3 and got a possibility to do it. I have share the snippet below. I tested the code and it was working for me. I did this snippet on an urgency. Feel free to improve the code if there are any changes that can be done..

// A custom TouchListener is being implemented which will clear out the focus 
// and gain the focus for the EditText, in few milliseconds so the selection 
// will be cleared and hence the copy paste option wil not pop up.
// the respective EditText should be set with this listener 
// tmpEditText.setOnTouchListener(new MyTouchListener(tmpEditText, tmpImm));

public class MyTouchListener implements View.OnTouchListener {

    long click = 0;
    EditText mEtView;
    InputMethodManager imm;

    public MyTouchListener(EditText etView, InputMethodManager im) {
        mEtView = etView;
        imm = im;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {

        if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
            long curr = System.currentTimeMillis();
            if (click !=0 && ( curr - click) < 30) {

                mEtView.setSelected(false);
                new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        mEtView.setSelected(true);
                        mEtView.requestFocusFromTouch();
                        imm.showSoftInput(mEtView, InputMethodManager.RESULT_SHOWN);
                    }
                },25);

            return true;
            }
            else {
                if (click == 0)
                    click = curr;
                else
                    click = 0;
                new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        mEtView.requestFocusFromTouch();
                        mEtView.requestFocusFromTouch();
                        imm.showSoftInput(mEtView, InputMethodManager.RESULT_SHOWN);
                    }
                },25);
            return true;
            }

        } else if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE) {
            mEtView.setSelected(false);
            new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    mEtView.setSelected(true);
                    mEtView.requestFocusFromTouch();
                    mEtView.requestFocusFromTouch();
                    imm.showSoftInput(mEtView, InputMethodManager.RESULT_SHOWN);
                }
            },25);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }