Question

I create a EditText and I want to avoid the virtual keyboard pupup when long press the EditText. but still can select the word in the text.

I want to have a EditText which look like textView(already done), and can select the word in the editText for searching. but don’t want the virtual keyboard and contextmenu(or change the menu item of it, but it is not important). Can I do it?

Answer 1

create your own EditText which extends EditText, and then override onCheckIsTextEditor():

public class MyEditText extends EditText {
    public MyEditText (Context context)
    {
        super(context);
    }

    public MyEditText (Context context, AttributeSet attrs)
    {
        super(context, attrs);
    }      

    public MyEditText (Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle)
    {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

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