Android EditText: How to disable cursor move on touch?

Question

I have EditText which displays something like ###-###. I want the user to be able to change this text only from the 1st position onward. That is user should not be able to touch

Answer 1

To enforce cursor always remain at the end of View and editable only from the last character, we can put editText.setSelection(editText.length) on any of action MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN or MotionEvent.ACTION_UP and if still want to show keyboard on tap, we can call showKeyboard() for INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE-

    editText.setOnTouchListener { v, event ->
        if (event.action == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP)
            Utils.showKeyboard(editText, this@MyActivity)

        if (event.action == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN)
            editText.setSelection(editText.text.length)

        return@setOnTouchListener true
    }