Question

I am connecting to a terminal emulator using a library in android, this connects to a serial device (a switch) and shows me sent/received data. I send data over serial using another library. I send data over the connection via a text box below the terminal or by typing in the terminal itself and hitting enter on the keyboard in both cases.

However I want to disable input into the terminal, so I tried to set focusable to false. I can still type in it though, Any other way to disable typing into the view?

<jackpal.androidterm.emulatorview.EmulatorView
        android:id="@+id/emulatorView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_above="@+id/term_entry"
        android:layout_below="@+id/deviceConnect"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/scrllyout"
        android:focusable="false"
        android:focusableInTouchMode="false" />

Answer 1

Looking at the source code of the EmulatorView, I saw this function:

@Override
public boolean onCheckIsTextEditor() {
    return true;
}

Perhaps you can change that to return false, and see if it fixes your problem.
If that doesn’t help, check

@Override
public InputConnection onCreateInputConnection(EditorInfo outAttrs) {}

See source code