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Edittext input type alignment extra space

I want to give extra space to input texts in my edit text.
here is what I have now :
but I want to achieve this :
which property of edittext will do this (in xml) ?
or I have to do this in another way ?
Thanks in advance !

android:paddingLeft is the property you need. You can use it as android:paddingLeft="8dp"
Checkout this answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4619943/1739882

Add this attribute:
android:paddingLeft="10dp"
padding usually used to give an alignment to the text inside the EditText or even Buttons
please inform me if this is what you are looking for

Ellipsis doesn't work

I have an edittext and I want to show 3 dots at the end when the text is longer than the edittext.
I found that there is a method setEllipsize so I've used that, but it is not working..
This is my code:
edt.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);
edt.setFocusable(false);
edt.setCursorVisible(false);
edt.setMaxLines(1);
edt.setHorizontallyScrolling(true);
edt.setSingleLine(true);
edt.setEllipsize(TruncateAt.END);
I've tried to add multiple parameters as you can see, but none of them are working.
Any more options I can try?

//try setting the Ems
edt.setMaxEms(5);
or
android:maxEms="5"
NOTE: you can adjust the ems size as how many chars you want to show.

Or in XML file set these for the editText
android:inputType="text"
android:maxLines="1"

SetEllipsize will work in TextView Try that

The issue here is that you're using setEllipsize with InputType = InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT
For some reason these 2 don't work together :(

Add a title or description to an EditText

If you open an app like gmail, and you compose a new email in the To and Subject lines, it says To and Subject in the respective EditText's. How do you add a title like that to an EditText? Are those custom views? Or is it possible to do that with the default widget?
Thanks.

It is called a hint.
Set your hint programatically or use it as xml attribute.

I think the attribute hint is what you are looking for.

Here is some sample code:
<EditText android:hint="Write Caption" />

Only Text in EditText on Android?

I want to only text (input) in edittext in App Android.!
example: Only type "Text: A-> Z", Not allow number or special character.?
Please give me idea, how should it be done?
Thank very much.!

Try this way,
android:digits="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
android:inputType="text"
For more info, you may check http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:digits

I think you can do this by the following attribute in ur xml file.
android:inputType
for more on this see this link:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:inputType
i think you should set it like this:
android:inputType="text"
or try this:
http://www.anddev.org/view-layout-resource-problems-f27/how-to-create-edittext-allow-only-alphabets-capital-and-smal-t12236.html

Disabling of EditText in Android

In my application, I have an EditText that the user only has Read access not Write access.
In code I set android:enabled="false".
Although the background of EditText changed to dark, when I click on it the keyboard pops up and I can change the text.
What should I set to disable EditText?

I believe the correct would be to set android:editable="false".
And if you wonder why my link point to the attributes of TextView, you the answer is because EditText inherits from TextView:
EditText is a thin veneer over
TextView that configures itself to be
editable.
Update:
As mentioned in the comments below, editable is deprecated (since API level 3). You should instead be using inputType (with the value none).

use EditText.setFocusable(false) to disable editing
EditText.setFocusableInTouchMode(true) to enable editing;

You can try the following method :
private void disableEditText(EditText editText) {
editText.setFocusable(false);
editText.setEnabled(false);
editText.setCursorVisible(false);
editText.setKeyListener(null);
editText.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
}
Enabled EditText :
Disabled EditText :
It works for me and hope it helps you.

Use this to disable user input
android:focusable="false"
android:editable="false" This method is deprecated one.

For disable edit EditText, I think we can use focusable OR enable but
Using android:enabled=... or editText.setEnabled(...)
It also changes the text color in EditText to gray.
When clicked it have no effect
Using android:focusable=... or editText.setFocusable(false) - editText.setFocusableInTouchMode(true)
It doesn't change text color of EditText
When clicked it highlights the EditText bottom line for about few millisecond
Output

As android:editable="false" deprecated
In xml
Use android:enabled="false" it's simple. Why use more code?
If you want in java class you can also use this programmatically
editText.setEnabled(false);

As android:editable="false" is depricated.You can use InputType TYPE_NULL on EditText
use like this :
editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

Simply:
editText.setEnabled(false);

To disable the functionality of an EditText, just use:
EditText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);
in case you want to enable it some way, then you can use:
EditText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);

I use google newly released Material Design Library. In my case, it works when I use
android:focusable="false" and
android:cursorVisible="false"
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
android:id="#+id/to_time_input_layout"
app:endIconMode="custom"
app:endIconDrawable="#drawable/ic_clock"
app:endIconContentDescription="ToTime"
app:endIconTint="#color/colorAccent"
style="#style/OutlinedEditTextStyle"
android:hint="To Time">
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputEditText
android:id="#+id/to_time_edit_text"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:focusable="false"
android:cursorVisible="false" />
</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>

Set below properties in class:
editText.setFocusable(false);
editText.setEnabled(false);
It will work smoothly as you required.

This will make your edittext disabled.
editText.setEnabled(false);
And by using this
editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);
Will just make your Edittext not show your softkeyboard, but if it is connected to a physical keyboard, it will let you type.

Disable = FOCUS+CLICK+CURSOR
Disabling focus, click, and cursor visibility does the trick for me.
Here is the code in XML
<EditText
android:id="#+id/name"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:focusable="false"
android:cursorVisible="false"
android:clickable="false"
/>

if you use android:editable="false", eclipse will remind you this message "android:editable is deprecated: Use inputType instead".
So, I use android:focusable="false" instead, it worked well for me.

android:editable="false"
is now deprecated and use
YourEditText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

Using android:editable="false" is Depracted. Instead you'll need to Use android:focusable="false"

Use TextView instead.

In my case I needed my EditText to scroll text if no. of lines exceed maxLines when its disabled. This implementation worked perfectly for me.
private void setIsChatEditTextEditable(boolean value)
{
if(value)
{
mEdittext.setCursorVisible(true);
mEdittext.setSelection(chat_edittext.length());
// use new EditText(getApplicationContext()).getKeyListener()) if required below
mEdittext.setKeyListener(new AppCompatEditText(getApplicationContext()).getKeyListener());
}
else
{
mEdittext.setCursorVisible(false);
mEdittext.setKeyListener(null);
}
}

Try this one, works fine for me:
public class CustomEdittext extends EditText {
Boolean mIsTextEditor=true;
public CustomEdittext(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
}
#Override
public boolean onCheckIsTextEditor() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return mIsTextEditor;
}
#Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
mIsTextEditor=false;
Boolean mOnTouchEvent=super.onTouchEvent(event);
mIsTextEditor=true;
return mOnTouchEvent;
} }
Note: You need to add this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
on your activity or else keyboard will popup at first time.

As some answer mention it, if you disable the editText he become gray and if you set focusable false the cursor is displaying.
If you would like to do it only with xml this did the trick
<YourFloatLabel
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<EditText
android:id="#+id/view_ads_search_select"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:focusable="true"
android:clickable="true"/>
</YourFloatLabel>
I simply add a FrameLayout appear above the editText and set it focusable and clickable so the editText can't be click.

This works for me:
android:focusable="false"

From #Asymptote's comment on the accepted answer, use:
myEditText.setEnabled(false);
myEditText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);
...and Bob's your uncle.

Today I still use editable="false", but also with focusable="false".
I think the case we need to make an EditText un-editable, is because we want to keep its EditText style (with that underline, with hint, etc), but it accepts other inputs instead of text. For example a dropdown list.
In such use case, we need to have the EditText clickable (thus enabled="false" is not suitable). Setting focusable="false" do this trick, however, I can still long hold on the EditText and paste my own text onto it from clipboard. Depending on your code and handling this can even crash your app.
So I also used editable="false" and now everything is great, except the warning.

you can use android:focusable="false" but also need to disable cursor otherwise
copy/paste function would still work.
so, use
android:focusable="false"
android:cursorVisible="false"

There are multiple was how to achieve multiple levels of disabled.
editText.setShowSoftInputOnFocus(false); and editText.setFocusable
prevents the EditText from showing keyboard - writing in some text. But cursor is still visible and user can paste in some text.
editText.setCursorVisible(false)
hides the cursor. Not sure why would you want to do that tho. User can input text & paste.
editText.setKeyListener(null)
I find this way most convenient. There is no way how user can input text, but widget still works with OnClickListener if you want to trigger action when user touches it
editText.setEnabled(false);
completely disables EditText. It is literally 'read-only', user cannot input any text in it and (for example) OnClickListener doesn't work with it.
TextEdit documentation

Set this in your XML code, It works.
android:focusableInTouchMode="false"