Disable EditText blinking cursor

Question

Does anyone know how to disable the blinking cursor in an EditText view?

Answer 1

You can use either the xml attribute android:cursorVisible="false" or the java function setCursorVisible(false).

Answer 2

1. Change focus to another view (ex: Any textview or Linearlayout in the XML) using

   android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
   android:focusable="true"
   

2. set addTextChangedListener to edittext in Activity.

3. and then on aftertextchanged of Edittext put edittext.clearFocus();

This will enable the cursor when keyboard is open and disable when keyboard is closed.

Answer 3

You can use following code for enabling and disabling edit text cursor by programmatically.

To Enable cursor

    editText.requestFocus();
    editText.setCursorVisible(true);

To Disable cursor

    editText.setCursorVisible(false);

Using XML enable disable cursor

   android:cursorVisible="false/true"
   android:focusable="false/true"

To make edit_text Selectable to (copy/cut/paste/select/select all)

   editText.setTextIsSelectable(true);

To focus on touch mode write following lines in XML

  android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
  android:clickable="true"
  android:focusable="true" 

programmatically

  editText.requestFocusFromTouch();

To clear focus on touch mode

  editText.clearFocus()

Answer 4

If you want to ignore the Edittext from the starting of activity, android:focusable and android:focusableInTouchMode will help you inshallah.

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/linearLayout7" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:focusable="true" android:focusableInTouchMode="true">

This LinearLayout with your Edittext.