EditText without virtual keyboard?

Question

Java

I would like to use the EditText component and all of its methods without using the virtual keyboard. In other words, when a field is clicked (focused), I don't want the virtual keyboard to pop up. At the same time, I need the cursor to work, text selection, scrolling, etc.
Before the 3rd version of android, this problem was solved by me by overriding the TextView#onCheckIsTextEditor() method and returning false. But starting from the 3rd version, the behavior of the TextView has changed, namely, checking the state of the cursor (its visibility) also began to check the TextView#onCheckIsTextEditor() property (the TextView#isCursorVisible() method began calling the TextView#onCheckIsTextEditor() method) and, as a result, the cursor disappeared . The rest of the component's behavior has not changed.
A quick and very “dirty” solution is to check the stack trace and return a different value when calling the code from different methods (if called from under TextView#isCursorVisible(), return true, otherwise false). Problematic code here
1. Are there other normal (and preferably simple) ways to solve this problem?
2. Is it normal behavior on the part of android developers to change the behavior of basic components?

Answer 1

To just not show the keyboard you need to do

editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

If at the same time you need to block input (the keyboard can also be forced), you need to add a method in your class:

public boolean getDefaultEditable() {
    return false;
}

or in xml add to the description of the EditText element

android:editable="false"