Reputation: 17216

Disable EditText blinking cursor

Does anyone know how to disable the blinking cursor in an EditText view?

Upvotes: 216

Answers (11)

Sajid khan

Reputation: 615

If you want to ignore the Edittext from the starting of activity, android:focusable and android:focusableInTouchMode will help you.

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/linearLayout7" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:focusable="true" android:focusableInTouchMode="true">

This LinearLayout with your Edittext.

Upvotes: 3

Vic

Reputation: 6037

You can use either the xml attribute android:cursorVisible="false" or programatically:

java: view.setCursorVisible(false)
kotlin: view.isCursorVisible = false

Upvotes: 400

Rohan Talukder

Reputation: 109

add android:focusableInTouchMode="true" in root layout, when edit text will be clicked at that time cursor will be shown.

Upvotes: 3

Qasimodo

Reputation: 21

rootLayout.findFocus().clearFocus();

Upvotes: 0

Rohit Rohit

Reputation: 11

In kotlin your_edittext.isCursorVisible = false

Upvotes: 1

vikas kumar

Reputation: 11018

The problem with setting cursor visibility to true and false may be a problem since it removes the cursor until you again set it again and at the same time field is editable which is not good user experience.

so instead of using

setCursorVisible(false)

just do it like this

        editText2.setFocusableInTouchMode(false)
        editText2.clearFocus()
        editText2.setFocusableInTouchMode(true)

The above code removes the focus which in turn removes the cursor. And enables it again so that you can again touch it and able to edit it. Just like normal user experience.

Upvotes: 5

Null Pointer Exception

Reputation: 1583

simple add this line into your parent layout

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:focusable="true"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true">

    <EditText
        android:inputType="text"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</LinearLayout>

Upvotes: 6

Bhavani PK

Reputation: 61

Change focus to another view (ex: Any textview or Linearlayout in the XML) using
```
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:focusable="true"
```
set addTextChangedListener to edittext in Activity.
and then on aftertextchanged of Edittext put edittext.clearFocus();

This will enable the cursor when keyboard is open and disable when keyboard is closed.

Upvotes: 2

Sagar H

Reputation: 5541

You can use following code for enabling and disabling edit text cursor by programmatically.

To Enable cursor

    editText.requestFocus();
    editText.setCursorVisible(true);

To Disable cursor

    editText.setCursorVisible(false);

Using XML enable disable cursor

   android:cursorVisible="false/true"
   android:focusable="false/true"

To make edit_text Selectable to (copy/cut/paste/select/select all)

   editText.setTextIsSelectable(true);

To focus on touch mode write following lines in XML

  android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
  android:clickable="true"
  android:focusable="true"

programmatically

  editText.requestFocusFromTouch();

To clear focus on touch mode

  editText.clearFocus()

Upvotes: 15

MontiRabbit

Reputation: 1030

In my case, I wanted to enable/disable the cursor when the edit is focused.

In your Activity:

@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
    if (ev.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
        View v = getCurrentFocus();
        if (v instanceof EditText) {
            EditText edit = ((EditText) v);
            Rect outR = new Rect();
            edit.getGlobalVisibleRect(outR);
            Boolean isKeyboardOpen = !outR.contains((int)ev.getRawX(), (int)ev.getRawY());
            System.out.print("Is Keyboard? " + isKeyboardOpen);
            if (isKeyboardOpen) {
                System.out.print("Entro al IF");
                edit.clearFocus();
                InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) this.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(edit.getWindowToken(), 0);
            }

            edit.setCursorVisible(!isKeyboardOpen);

        }
    }
    return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
}

Upvotes: 4

coolcool1994

Reputation: 3812

Perfect Solution that goes further to the goal

Goal: Disable the blinking curser when EditText is not in focus, and enable the blinking curser when EditText is in focus. Below also opens keyboard when EditText is clicked, and hides it when you press done in the keyboard.

1) Set in your xml under your EditText:

android:cursorVisible="false"

2) Set onClickListener:

iEditText.setOnClickListener(editTextClickListener);

OnClickListener editTextClickListener = new OnClickListener() 

{

    public void onClick(View v) 
    {
         if (v.getId() == iEditText.getId()) 
        {
            iEditText.setCursorVisible(true);
        }

    }
};

3) then onCreate, capture the event when done is pressed using OnEditorActionListener to your EditText, and then setCursorVisible(false).

//onCreate...

iEditText.setOnEditorActionListener(new OnEditorActionListener() {

            @Override
            public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId,
                    KeyEvent event) {
                    iEditText.setCursorVisible(false);
                if (event != null&& (event.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER)) {
                    InputMethodManager in = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                    in.hideSoftInputFromWindow(iEditText.getApplicationWindowToken(),InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
                }
                return false;
            }
        });

Upvotes: 44

Disable EditText blinking cursor

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