EditText non editable

Question

I'm trying to make an EditText non editable with this code:

<EditText android:id="@+id/outputResult"           android:inputType="text"           android:editable="false"           android:layout_width="fill_parent"           android:layout_height="wrap_content"           android:text="@string/result" /> 

I had to add following line to make it non-editable

android:focusable="false"  

Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

android:editable="false" should work, but it is deprecated, you should be using android:inputType="none" instead.

Alternatively, if you want to do it in the code you could do this :

EditText mEdit = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.yourid); mEdit.setEnabled(false); 

This is also a viable alternative :

EditText mEdit = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.yourid); mEdit.setKeyListener(null); 

If you're going to make your EditText non-editable, may I suggest using the TextView widget instead of the EditText, since using a EditText seems kind of pointless in that case.

EDIT: Altered some information since I've found that android:editable is deprecated, and you should use android:inputType="none", but there is a bug about it on android code; So please check this.