Why can I type into a disabled EditText?

Question

If I disable an EditText widget using

editText.setEnabled(false);

I can still type into it using the on-screen input method (in

Answer 1

I fixed this issue but the patch only got included in Honeycomb. That's why I've created a little project which will contain my backported fixes to versions starting from 2.1. It contains the fix for bug 2771: http://code.google.com/p/android-fixes/
You can check out the "library" from the svn and include it in your project. Then instead of android.widget.EditText import edu.ubbdroid.android.widget.EditText (which extends the original EditText) and the problem should be gone :)