Question

Can anyone tell me how to make an EditText not editable via XML? I tried setting android:editable to false, but

1. it is deprecated; and
2. it didn’t work.

Answer 1

Use this simple code:

textView.setKeyListener(null);

It works.

Edit : To add KeyListener later, do following

1 : set key listener to tag of textView

textView.setTag(textView.getKeyListener());
textView.setKeyListener(null);

2 : get key listener from tag and set it back to textView

textView.setKeyListener((KeyListener) textView.getTag());