EditText cursor becomes invisible in JellyBean

Question

In my app, I have an edit text with properties:

android:inputType="none" and android:textIsSelectable="true".

It's because I have defined my own buttons to enter input (buttons, not custom keyboard). I have used

editText.requestFocus()

to make the cursor visible. Upto to android 4.0.4, the cursor is visible and not in phones running Jelly Bean. The cursor isn't visible but I'm able touch and enter text between characters ( using editText.getSelectionStart() ).

What has changed in Jelly Bean? How do I make the cursor visible?

Edit: android:cursorVisible="true" isn't helping.

Answer 1

Removing android:textIsSelectable="true (text is selectable even without this)

and adding

android:textCursorDrawable="@null" fixed the issue.

Answer 2

In Jellybeans, it happens if you set background to editText.

To show cursor in editText, just use android:textCursorDrawable="@null" and android:textColor="@color/someColor"