How to Prevent Keyboard appearing for EditText that is not enabled

Question

My activity has an EditText which is supposedly not editable until user clicks on edit button for the screen.

I did edit.setEnabled(false) but still a keyboard appears for the user and values can be added to the EditText in the screen via the keyboard even though the screen might look a bit greyed out. What else do I have to do to prevent editing of the EditText until user has specifically pushed an edit button.

Thanks, Steve

Answer 1

Attention that setEditable is depecrated.

You can use :

setInputType(EditorInfo.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT)

To turn keyboard on.

setInputType(EditorInfo.TYPE_NULL)

To turn keyboard off.

Answer 2

Try setEditable(false) on your EditText.

Set it back to true when you want someone to be able to type in it.

Answer 3

in your layout file add the attribute to your EditText

android:editable="false"

Answer 4

To make EditText Write Only and not have the keyboard show up I use these two commends within the .xml layout file.

        android:editable="false"
        android:inputType="none"

Answer 5

Use edittext.setInputType(0); in your java file.

Answer 6

In API level 21, a function has been added to EditText, namely

editText.setShowInputOnFocus(boolean show);

This is exactly what you need.