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Asked: 2020-06-02 22:13:08 +0800 CST 2020-06-02 22:13:08 +0800 CST

How to prevent an Android EditText from showing the keyboard when it receives focus (without disabling the control)?

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It happens that I have an Edit Text of type textPersonName and when I pass the focus to another Edit Text of type date it shows me the virtual keyboard but I want it not to show it to me, since instead I want a dialog containing a DatePicker (which I already have)

This question has already been asked and the solution I read is:

TuEditText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

and in the xml:

android:inputType="none"

but this only removes the focus and I have to click on the EditText to show the DatePicker dialog and I want it to keep the focus but not show the virtual keyboard and show my DatePicker dialog

Another solution I saw is to remove the focus from the EditText date with the following code:

android:focusable="false"

but this is not what I intend to do since when I remove the focus I must click on the EditText to show the DatePicker dialog I repeat I intend to keep the focus but not show the virtual keyboard and show my DatePicker dialog

Here is the xml code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin">

 <EditText
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:inputType="textPersonName"
        android:ems="10"
        android:id="@+id/txt_practica"
        android:hint="Practica"
        android:layout_marginTop="9dp"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true" />

<EditText
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:inputType="date"
        android:ems="10"
        android:hint="Fecha de uso"
        android:id="@+id/txt_fechadeuso"
        android:layout_below="@+id/txt_practica"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
        android:onClick="mostrarCalendario" />

</RelativeLayout>
java

5 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can try this:

    if(tuEdtittext.requestFocus()) {
esconderTecladoyAbrirElDatePicker();
}

    Also try making use of OnFocusChangeListener :

     tuEdittext .setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {          

    public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
        //Escondes el teclado y muestras el datePicker
    }
});
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  2. Good morning, by doing focusable=falseyou have the onTouchListener to open the DatePicker, if you still need to click you can do this:

     yourEditText.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
             if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN)
                 v.performClick();
            return false;
        }
    });

    What I usually do in these cases is to make a fake editText, basically it is a textView with a customized linearLayout in the background to make it look like an editText, since customizing a pre-lollipop TextView can cause problems.

    Finally I leave you a simple way to hide the keyboard:

    public void closeSoftKeyBoard() {
   InputMethodManager inputMethodManager =
                    (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
   inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
    }

    All the best

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  3. What you are looking for is to disable the android virtual keyboard and we must do the following for that: 1.- We must go to the AndroidManifest.xml. 2.- In it we must add the following:

    <activity android:name="NombreActividad"android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"></activity>

    3.- After that we clean the android solution and with that when the user selects the edittext the android virtual keyboard will be hidden.

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  4. friend try to put the following attribute android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden" in the manifest:

     <activity

        android:name=".tuactividad"
        android:label="titulo_de_tu_actividad"
        android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden">

    </activity>
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  5. You just have to put in the attributes(XML.) of the Edittext:

    android:focusable="false"
android:clickable="true"

    With focusable set to "false" it will be prevented from being typed on, therefore the keyboard will not appear, and with clickable set to "true" it will be clickable, therefore the calendar will appear.

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