Disable keyboard input on Android TimePicker

Question

I\'m developing and Android app using the 1.6 SDK. I\'m using a TimePicker and I don\'t want the soft keyboard to come up when you click on the digits in the

Answer 1

I just tried (targeting 4.0.3)

myTimePicker.setDescendantFocusability(TimePicker.FOCUS_BLOCK_DESCENDANTS);

with no success. After searching google for "android TimePicker BLOCK_DESCENDANTS not working" i followed the hit

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=38369

where the last post, which is by a "Project Member", states:

"Descendant focusability refers to a view's ability to take focus, as in focus traversal using a keyboard, trackball, or d-pad. It does not affect touch events by design.

If you need to block touch events from a descendant view, consider overriding onInterceptTouchEvent in a parent view and returning true when blocking touch events is desired. This will cause the MotionEvents to be sent to the intercepting parent until the last pointer goes up."