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

As android:editable="" is deprecated,

Setting

• android:clickable="false"
• android:focusable="false"
• android:inputType="none"
• android:cursorVisible="false"

will make it "read-only".

However, users will still be able to paste into the field or perform any other long click actions. To disable this, simply override onLongClickListener().
In Kotlin:

• myEditText.setOnLongClickListener { true }

suffices.

Answer 2

android:editable

If set, specifies that this TextView has an input method. It will be a textual one unless it has otherwise been specified. For TextView, this is false by default. For EditText, it is true by default.

Must be a boolean value, either true or false.

This may also be a reference to a resource (in the form @[package:]type:name) or theme attribute (in the form ?[package:][type:]name) containing a value of this type.

This corresponds to the global attribute resource symbol editable.

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Answer 3

The best is by using TextView instead.

Answer 4

writing this two line is more than enough for your work.

yourEditText.setKeyListener(null); 
yourEditText.setEnabled(false);