Question

I have an activity which has an EditText and a Button. The data in the EditText is not editable in the beginning, but it becomes editable when the Button is pressed.I have tried using android:editable="false" in the xml layout , but it is not working. Can somebody help me with this?

Answer 1

You need to first set the TextEdit editable property to false in your xml layout :

<EditText
    ...
    android:id="@+id/input"
    android:clickable="false" />

And then when the button is clicked, set the TextEdit to editable :

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    input = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.input);
    button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button);

    button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
    {
        public void onClick(View v)
        {
            input.setClickable(true);
        }

    });
}