Make EditText ReadOnly

Question

Please use this code..

Edittext.setEnabled(false);

If you setEnabled(false) then your editText would look disabled (gray, etc). You may not want to change the visual aspect of your editor.

A less intrusive way would be to use setFocusable(false).

I believe that this answers your question closer to your initial intent.

In XML use:

android:editable="false"

As an example:

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/EditText1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:editable="false" />

This works for me:

EditText.setKeyListener(null);

editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

As per the docs this prevents the soft keyboard from being displayed. It also prevents pasting, allows scrolling and doesn't alter the visual aspect of the view. However, this also prevents selecting and copying of the text within the view.

From my tests setting setInputType to TYPE_NULL seems to be functionally equivalent to the depreciated android:editable="false". Additionally, android:inputType="none" seems to have no noticeable effect.