Hiding the android keyboard for EditText

Question

Whenever I click in the EditText the Android keyboard popup window appears, but I don\'t want the keyboard to pop up.

I want to permanently hide the and

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.