How to make EditText not editable through XML in Android?

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Can anyone tell me how to make an EditText not editable via XML? I tried setting android:editable to false, but

  1. it is deprecated; and
  2. it didn't work.
29 Answers

Please try this!, it may help some people

<EditText  
android:enabled="false"
android:textColor="#000000"/>

Short answer: I used android:focusable="false" and it worked. Click listening is also working now.

I resolve this with a dialog.

    AlertDialog dialog;
    EditText _editID;
    TextView _txtID;

 @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_principal);
        _txtID = (TextView) findViewById(R.id._txtID);
        dialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(this).create();
        _editID = new EditText(this);
        _editID.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NUMBER_FLAG_SIGNED);
        dialog.setTitle("Numero do Registro:");
        dialog.setView(_editID);
        dialog.setButton(DialogInterface.BUTTON_POSITIVE, "IR", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                _txtID.setText(_editID.getText());
                toId(Integer.parseInt((_editID.getText().toString())));
            }
        });
        dialog.setButton(DialogInterface.BUTTON_NEGATIVE, "CANCELAR", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                dialog.dismiss();
            }
        });

        _txtID.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                _txtID.setText("_editID.getText()");
                //_editID.setText("");
                dialog.show();

            }
        });

Kotlin extension option:

fun AppCompatAutoCompleteTextView.setEditable(editable: Boolean) {
    if (!editable) {
        this.tag = this.keyListener
        this.keyListener = null
    } else {
        if(this.tag is KeyListener) {
            this@setEditable.keyListener = this@setEditable.tag as KeyListener
        }
    }
}

You can toggle between editable of edittext by this method:

public void toggleEditableOfEditText(EditText editText){
        if (editText.getKeyListener() != null) {
            editText.setTag(editText.getKeyListener());
            editText.setKeyListener(null);
        } else {
            editText.setKeyListener((KeyListener) editText.getTag());
        }
    }

and then use this method to make edittext editable or not editable:

toggleEditableOfEditText(editText);
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