Prevent drag drop of custom mimetype to EditText

Question

I have a custom mime type which I am intending to use to drag and drop application objects within the app. This seems to be working but I\'m finding that the EditText fields ar

Answer 1

I encountered a similar issue in that I did not want a layout to accept the drop action.

Attach a drag listener to your edit field via the setOnDragListener.

edtText.setOnDragListener(new MyDragListener());

Check whether the target view in the onDrag event is your edit text.

class MyDragListener implements OnDragListener {

    @Override
    public boolean onDrag(View v, DragEvent event) {

      switch (event.getAction()) {
         case DragEvent.ACTION_DROP:
             //check whether it has been dropped onto your edit text
              if(v!=edtText)
                  //your code here
    }