How to disable typing into EditText once its visibilty is set to Gone

Question

I am writing an application on Android and I have these bunch of buttons; when you click on them the input panel (EditText) appears if it is not already visible otherwise it disappears. The problem is that the user can still type into the EditText even after it's disappeared. I've attached two pictures to show what I mean.

I tried .setEnabled(false) - didn't work.

I tried .setFocusable(false) - didn't work.

I tried both together - didn't work.

Answer 1

You can try hide soft keyboard before setting visibility.

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) YourActivity.this.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editView.getWindowToken(), 0);

Answer 2

I think you need to close Android soft keyboard. This link will help you with this issue: Close/hide the Android Soft Keyboard

Answer 3

you can use TextWatcher alongwith flag http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/TextWatcher.html

prepare logic such that once visibilty gone then in public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) put same Text as earlier

refer this too Android TextWatcher.afterTextChanged vs TextWatcher.onTextChanged

Answer 4

These answers to these questions say you can use an InputFilter

editText.setFilters(new InputFilter[] {
    new InputFilter() {
        public CharSequence filter(CharSequence src, int start,
            int end, Spanned dst, int dstart, int dend) {
            return src.length() < 1 ? dst.subSequence(dstart, dend) : "";
        }
    }
});

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