Make EditText ReadOnly

Question

I want to make a read-only EditText view. The XML to do this code seems to be android:editable=\"false\", but I want to do this in code.

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Answer 1

This works for me:

EditText.setKeyListener(null);

Answer 2

Please use this code..

Edittext.setEnabled(false);

Answer 3

I had no problem making EditTextPreference read-only, by using:

editTextPref.setSelectable(false);

This works well when coupled with using the 'summary' field to display read-only fields (useful for displaying account info, for example). Updating the summary fields dynamically snatched from http://gmariotti.blogspot.com/2013/01/preferenceactivity-preferencefragment.html

private static final List<String> keyList;

static {
    keyList = new ArrayList<String>();
    keyList.add("field1");
    keyList.add("field2");
    keyList.add("field3");
}

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences);

    for(int i=0;i<getPreferenceScreen().getPreferenceCount();i++){
        initSummary(getPreferenceScreen().getPreference(i));
    }
}

private void initSummary(Preference p) {
    if (p instanceof PreferenceCategory) {
        PreferenceCategory pCat = (PreferenceCategory) p;
        for (int i = 0; i < pCat.getPreferenceCount(); i++) {
            initSummary(pCat.getPreference(i));
        }
    } else {
        updatePrefSummary(p);
    }
}

private void updatePrefSummary(Preference p) {
    if (p instanceof ListPreference) {
        ListPreference listPref = (ListPreference) p;
        p.setSummary(listPref.getEntry());
    }
    if (p instanceof EditTextPreference) {
        EditTextPreference editTextPref = (EditTextPreference) p;
        //editTextPref.setEnabled(false); // this can be used to 'gray out' as well
        editTextPref.setSelectable(false);
        if (keyList.contains(p.getKey())) {
            p.setSummary(editTextPref.getText());
        }
    }
}

Answer 4

android:editable="false" has been deprecated. Therefore you cant use it to make the edit text readonly.

I have done this using the bellow solution. Here I have used

android:inputType="none"

android:textIsSelectable="true"

android:focusable="false"

Give it try :)

<EditText
         android:id="@+id/et_newsgpa_university"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:layout_width="match_parent"
         android:hint="@string/hint_educational_institute"
         android:textSize="@dimen/regular_text"
         android:inputType="none"
         android:textIsSelectable="true"
         android:focusable="false"
         android:maxLines="1"
         android:imeOptions="actionNext"/>

Answer 5

Try using

editText.setEnabled(false);
editText.setClickable(false);

Answer 6

If you setEnabled(false) then your editText would look disabled (gray, etc). You may not want to change the visual aspect of your editor.

A less intrusive way would be to use setFocusable(false).

I believe that this answers your question closer to your initial intent.