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Asked: 2020-12-22 06:57:53 +0800 CST 2020-12-22 06:57:53 +0800 CST

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

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I would like to know how I can prevent the control from EditTextdisplaying the keyboard every time it receives focus or the user hovers over the control.

The reason for this is that I want to use said control to show a calendar dialog every time it receives the focus or the user hovers over the control, so that the control will get the value of the date (I already have this last part implemented ).

In principle, according to the Android documentationandroid:inputType="none" , setting the field's type attribute EditTextmakes the text non-editable, so the expected behavior is that the keyboard is not displayed . However, the keyboard still appears each time the control receives focus or the user clicks on the control.

Here is the code to define the control:

<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingLeft="16dp"
    android:paddingRight="16dp">

    <android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

        <!-- Controles --> 

        <android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
            android:id="@+id/tiFechaCaducidad"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content">

            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/etFechaCaducidad"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:hint="@string/fechacaducidad"
                android:singleLine="true"
                android:inputType="none"
                android:drawableRight="@drawable/ic_arrow_drop_down" />
        </android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

    </android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView>
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
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4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can try to use this, hope it helps. I was going to put it as a comment but it was too long:

    TuEditText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

    this is a method of the TextView:

    public void setInputType(int type)

    Added in API level 3 Wrap the content type with a constant as defined for InputType. This will take care of changing the key listener, by calling setKeyListener(KeyListener), to match the given content type. If the given content type is TYPE_NULL then an on-screen keyboard will not be displayed for this text view . Note that the maximum number of lines displayed (see setMaxLines(int)) will be modified if you change the TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_MULTI_LINE flag of the input type.

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  2. This would be a way to do it, consuming the event onTouch():

    myEditText.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener(){
     @Override
     public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
      return true; // el evento es consumido. Aquí puedes llamar tu método para abrir tu diálogo.
     }
});
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  3. Place the following in the properties of the edit text :

    android:focusable="false"
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  4. The answer to your question would be to assign the type nullto the input of yourEditText 

    editText1.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

    When entering the parameter null, the parameter that receives the text and automatically sends the android keyboard would be deactivated, being subject only to the text input that you handle through the code on the screen.

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