Android: Disable soft keyboard at all EditTexts

Question

I am working on a dialog at Android with a few EditTexts. I've put this line at the onCreate() in order to disable the soft keyboard:

Keypad.this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

The problem is that it works only when the dialog appear and doing nothing. When I move to the next EditText, the keyboard appears and not going down.

Does anybody have an idea how to solve this issue?

Answer 1

If you take look on onCheckIsTextEditor() method implementation (in TextView), it looks like this:

@Override public boolean onCheckIsTextEditor() {     return mInputType != EditorInfo.TYPE_NULL; } 

This means you don't have to subclass, you can just:

((EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText1)).setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);  

I tried setting android:inputType="none" in layout xml but it didn't work for me, so I did it programmatically.

Answer 2

create your own class that extends EditText and override the onCheckIsTextEditor():

public class NoImeEditText extends EditText {     public NoImeEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {         super(context, attrs);     }     @Override     public boolean onCheckIsTextEditor() {         return false;     } } 

Answer 3

Try this out..

edittext.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);      
if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 11)   
{  
    edittext.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);  
    edittext.setTextIsSelectable(true);  
}