Put constant text inside EditText which should be non-editable - Android

Question

I want to have constant text inside editText like:

http://<here_user_can_write> 

User should not be able to delete any chars from "http://", I searched about this and found this:

editText.setFilters(new InputFilter[] {     new InputFilter() {         public CharSequence filter(CharSequence src, int start,             int end, Spanned dst, int dstart, int dend) {             return src.length() < 1 ? dst.subSequence(dstart, dend) : "";         }     } });  

but I don't know whether it restricts user to not delete any chars from start to end limit. I also could not understand use of Spanned class.

One way would be a good choice if we can put a TextView inside EditText but I don't think it is possible in Android since both are Views, is it possible?

Answer 1

Did u try this method?

final EditText edt = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText1);  edt.setText("http://"); Selection.setSelection(edt.getText(), edt.getText().length());   edt.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {          @Override         public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {             // TODO Auto-generated method stub          }          @Override         public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,                 int after) {             // TODO Auto-generated method stub          }          @Override         public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {             if(!s.toString().startsWith("http://")){                 edt.setText("http://");                 Selection.setSelection(edt.getText(), edt.getText().length());              }          }     });