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EditText editable is deprecated How to use inputType in Android

If you are working in non editable EditText, then you may notice that now it’s showing warning in xml layout file, Because android:editable is now editable deprecated android. And it will be removed in upcoming version of android. And if you navigate to official website then they will suggest you to use android:inputType instead of android:editable. But they haven’t explained that how to use android:inputType to disable input in EditText.

So here is solution:

Make EditText non editable in Android

First method:

first method is using android:inputType which is suggested by official android team. To use this just set android:inputType="none" and it will become non editable.

for example

in XML

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/myEditText"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:hint="Hint"
    android:inputType="none"
    />

Second method:

In your xml code set focusable="false", android:clickable="false" and android:cursorVisible="false" and this will make your EditText treat like non editable.

for example

in XML

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/myEditText"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:hint="Hint"
    android:focusable="false"
    android:clickable="false"
    android:cursorVisible="false"
    />

Third method:

If you can also disable EditText, then you can set this from Java or Kotlin code.

for example

In Java

EditText et = findViewById(R.id.myEditText);
et.setEnabled(false);

In Kotlin

myEditText.isEnabled = false

It depends on you that which method will you preffer. Write in comments which method you like and why?, so other users can take benefit of this.