Disable EditText blinking cursor
You can use either the xml attribute android:cursorVisible="false"
or programatically:
- java:
view.setCursorVisible(false)
- kotlin:
view.isCursorVisible = false
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;
}
});