How to set editable true/false EditText in Android programmatically?

Question

We can set editable property of EditText in XML layout but not programatically, but there is no setEditable() method!

If EditText

Answer 1

I did it in a easier way , setEditable and setFocusable false. but you should check this.

How to replicate android:editable="false" in code?

Answer 2

Since setEditable(false) is deprecated, use textView.setKeyListener(null); to make editText non-clickable.

Answer 3

How to do it programatically :

To enable EditText use:

et.setEnabled(true);

To disable EditText use:

et.setEnabled(false);

Answer 4

This may help:

if (cbProhibitEditPW.isChecked()) { // disable editing password
       editTextPassword.setFocusable(false);
       editTextPassword.setFocusableInTouchMode(false); // user touches widget on phone with touch screen
       editTextPassword.setClickable(false); // user navigates with wheel and selects widget
       isProhibitEditPassword= true;
} else { // enable editing of password
       editTextPassword.setFocusable(true);
       editTextPassword.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
       editTextPassword.setClickable(true);
       isProhibitEditPassword= false;
}

Answer 5

editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

Answer 6

Once focus of edit text is removed, it would not allow you to type even if you set it to focusable again.

Here is a way around it

if (someCondition)
   editTextField.setFocusable(false);
else
   editTextField.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);

Setting it true in setFocusableInTouchMode() seems to do the trick.