In my application, there is a registration screen, where i do not want the user to be able to copy/paste text into the EditText
field. I have set an onLongClickListener
on each EditText
so that the context menu showing copy/paste/inputmethod and other options does not show up. So the user won't be able to copy/ paste into the Edit fields.
OnLongClickListener mOnLongClickListener = new OnLongClickListener() {
@Override
public boolean onLongClick(View v) {
// prevent context menu from being popped up, so that user
// cannot copy/paste from/into any EditText fields.
return true;
}
};
But the problem arises if the user has enabled a third-party keyboard other than the Android default, which may have a button to copy/paste or which may show the same context menu. So how do i disable copy/paste in that scenario ?
Please let me know if there are other ways to copy/paste as well. (and possibly how to disable them)
Any help would be appreciated.
If you are using API level 11 or above then you can stop copy,paste,cut and custom context menus from appearing by.
edittext.setCustomSelectionActionModeCallback(new ActionMode.Callback() {
public boolean onPrepareActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) {
return false;
}
public void onDestroyActionMode(ActionMode mode) {
}
public boolean onCreateActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) {
return false;
}
public boolean onActionItemClicked(ActionMode mode, MenuItem item) {
return false;
}
});
Returning false from onCreateActionMode(ActionMode, Menu) will prevent the action mode from being started(Select All, Cut, Copy and Paste actions).