Make EditText editable programmatically

Question

I have a layout with one textView and one EditText and a button. EditText is made as non editable in xml file. I want to make it enabled via code.

 <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Name"
        android:id="@+id/textView12"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
         />

    <EditText
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/etName"
        android:layout_below="@+id/textView12"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
        android:editable="false"
        />
    <ImageButton
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@drawable/edit"
        android:onClick="edit"
        android:id="@+id/btnName"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_alignParentEnd="true" />

Answer 1

Remove android:editable="false" this line from android xml file as this method is deprecated in android. and use below code to do so.

• Make EditText non editable using java code

In onCreate of activity do the following after setContentView() method

EditText text = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etName);
text.setTag(text.getKeyListener());
text.setKeyListener(null);

• And make it editable using following code

  text.setKeyListener((KeyListener) textView.getTag());
  

Hope it'll help.

Answer 2

hey instead of editable use android:enabled="false" and in code setEnabled(true)