How to capture onclick event in disabled EditText in Android App

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Balkrishna Rawool picture Balkrishna Rawool · Mar 15, 2012 · Viewed 19k times · Source

I have a EditText which I am presenting as disabled so that user cannot edit the contents and also to avoid popping-up keyboard. But now I want to capture onclick event in the EditText and identify the individual words that are being clicked. Any help is most welcome.

Thanks, Balkrishna.

Answer

Rajkiran picture Rajkiran · Mar 15, 2012

On your EditText set attributes android:focusable="false" and android:enabled="true". And set OnClickListener to that EditText. The click on that Edittext triggers the onClick() method but it can't be edited. I just tried it.

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