I've come about as far as this which gets me halfway there, but not quite. I have a dialer Fragment
that has all the usual Button
s to enter a number including backspace, so I don't need the soft keyboard. I'd also like to give the user the ability to paste text (long click... works fine per default), as well as to edit what has been entered so I need the cursor.
The easiest way I found to make sure the soft keyboard doesn't pop up if the user clicks inside the EditText
is to set the inputType
to null - but that kills the cursor as well.
So, how do I declare my EditText
and what kind of commands should I launch to have my EditText
field never ever show the soft keyboard no matter what the user attempts, but still retain paste functionality and the cursor?
I've also tried android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden"
in my manifest, but to no avail.
This worked for me:
// Update the EditText so it won't popup Android's own keyboard, since I have my own.
EditText editText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.edit_mine);
editText.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
@Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
v.onTouchEvent(event);
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)v.getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
if (imm != null) {
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), 0);
}
return true;
}
});
I have finally found a (for me) working solution to this.
First part (in onCreate):
// Set to TYPE_NULL on all Android API versions
mText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);
// for later than GB only
if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 11) {
// this fakes the TextView (which actually handles cursor drawing)
// into drawing the cursor even though you've disabled soft input
// with TYPE_NULL
mText.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);
}
In addition, android:textIsSelectable needs to be set to true (or set in onCreate) and the EditText must not be focused on initialization. If your EditText is the first focusable View (which it was in my case), you can work around this by putting this just above it:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_height="0px"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true" >
<requestFocus />
</LinearLayout>
You can see the results of this in the Grapher application, free and available in Google Play.
Setting the flag textIsSelectable to true disables the soft keyboard.
You can set it in your xml layout like this:
<EditText
android:id="@+id/editText"
...
android:textIsSelectable="true"/>
Or programmatically, like this:
EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText);
editText.setTextIsSelectable(true);
The cursor will still be present, you'll be able to select/copy/cut/paste but the soft keyboard will never show.
Best solution from @Lupsaa here :
Setting the flag textIsSelectable to true disables the soft keyboard.
You can set it in your xml layout like this:
<EditText
android:id="@+id/editText"
...
android:textIsSelectable="true"/>
Or programmatically, like this:
EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText);
editText.setTextIsSelectable(true);
The cursor will still be present, you'll be able to select/copy/cut/paste but the soft keyboard will never show.
use
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"
in your manifest file instead of android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden"
This is what I did. First, in manifest inside activity
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden|adjustNothing"
Second, in onCreate
if inside activity or onActivityCreated
if inside fragment
editText.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
hideSoftKeyboard(v);
}
});
Do not forget to request focus to the editText
editText.requestFocus();
Then add the hideSoftKeyboard(v)
method same as the other answer.
private void hideSoftKeyboard(View v){
InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), 0);
}
The key here is to requestFocus before clicking the EditText. If without focus, first click will make the keyboard show up(my experience). However, this is applied if you have a single EditText in an activity. With this, you still can type with custom keyboard(if any), can copy and paste, and cursor is still visible.
The exact functionality that you require is provided by setting the flag textIsSelectable
in EditText to true . With this, the cursor will still be present, and you'll be able to select/copy/cut/paste, but SoftKeyboard will never show . Requires API 11 and above.
You can set it in your xml layout like this:
<EditText
android:textIsSelectable="true"
...
/>
Or programmatically, like this:
EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText);
editText.setTextIsSelectable(true);
For anyone using API 10 and below, hack is provided here : https://stackoverflow.com/a/20173020/7550472
This works perfectly (for me) in 2 steps:
<activity... android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden">
in manifest file
Add these properties in your editText XML code
android:focusable="true" android:focusableInTouchMode="true
You have to put both 1 and 2, only then it will work.
Cheers
EditText text = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.text);
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 11) {
text.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);
text.setTextIsSelectable(true);
} else {
text.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);
text.setFocusable(true);
}
If your min SDK is 21, you can this method from java code:
editText.setShowSoftInputOnFocus(false);
Credits to Chen Su article .
First add android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"
in your manifest file, under the activity. like this
<activity... android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden">
The on your xml add this android:textIsSelectable="true"
. This will make the pointer visible.
Then on onCreate method of the activity, add this:
EditText editText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.edit_text);
edit_text.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
@Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
v.onTouchEvent(event);
InputMethodManager inputMethod = (InputMethodManager)v.getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
if (inputMethod!= null) {
inputMethod.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), 0);
}
return true;
}
});
i found this very useful code and it work as charm, it head the Keyboard totaly, but keeping cursor and you can copy past, move the cursor...ect
using :
hideSoftKeyboard(editText);
methode :
public void hideSoftKeyboard(EditText edit) {
if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT <= 10) {
edit.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);
} else {
this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
try {
Class<EditText> cls = EditText.class;
Method setSoftInputShownOnFocus;
setSoftInputShownOnFocus = cls.getMethod("setShowSoftInputOnFocus", boolean.class);
setSoftInputShownOnFocus.setAccessible(true);
setSoftInputShownOnFocus.invoke(edit, false);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
EditText editText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.edit_mine); editText.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
@Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
v.onTouchEvent(event);
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)v.getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
if (imm != null) {
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), 0);
}
return true;
}
});
ha... this is the correct way of doing...this job done... this gonna work !
You can use the following line of code in the activity's onCreate method to make sure the keyboard only pops up when a user clicks or touch into an EditText Field. I tried lots of methods and codes from stackoverflow but didnt work any but this Works Perfectly for me!! Try this.. :)`
this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
You can use the following line of code in the activity's onCreate method to make sure the keyboard only pops up when a user clicks or touch into an EditText Field. I tried lots of methods and codes from stackoverflow but didnt work any but this Works Perfectly for me!! Try this.. :)`
this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
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