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

You need to implement the TextWatcher interface and override the three methods, afterTextChanged, beforeTextChanged, onTextChanged (you may only need to actually use one of them) Eg:

public class MyTextWatcher implements TextWatcher {
    @Override
    public void afterTextChanged(Editable arg0) {
        changeItBack();
    }

    @Override
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
    }

    @Override
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
    }
}

You then add this Watcher to your EditText, like so:
myEditText.addTextChangedListener(new MyTextWatcher());

Hope this helps.