How to Prevent Keyboard appearing for EditText that is not enabled

Question

My activity has an EditText which is supposedly not editable until user clicks on edit button for the screen.

I did edit.setEnabled(false)

Answer 1

Try setEditable(false) on your EditText.

Set it back to true when you want someone to be able to type in it.

Answer 2

in your layout file add the attribute to your EditText

android:editable="false"

Answer 3

Attention that setEditable is depecrated.

You can use :

setInputType(EditorInfo.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT)

To turn keyboard on.

setInputType(EditorInfo.TYPE_NULL)

To turn keyboard off.

Answer 4

Use edittext.setInputType(0); in your java file.

Answer 5

To make EditText Write Only and not have the keyboard show up I use these two commends within the .xml layout file.

        android:editable="false"
        android:inputType="none"

Answer 6

In API level 21, a function has been added to EditText, namely

editText.setShowSoftInputOnFocus(boolean show);

This is exactly what you need.