Hide Keyboard and show it by button

Question

I am creating a program that write in EditText by barcode reader so I don't want to show the keyboard immediately even if I focused on it I don't wanna it to be visible , I need to press a button to show keyboard only to Edit sometimes . and thanks

Answer 1

I would disable the EditText button from the beginning:

editText.setEnabled(false);

And to answer your question, yes. Even if it is disabled, you can change the text. Disabled only means user can't change it. You can programmatically edit it.

Then when the button is pressed:

button.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        editText.setEnabled(true);
        editText.requestFocus();
    }
});

This should automatically show the keyboard when the button is pressed.

Bonus: If you want to disable the EditText once the editing is done, you can do this:

editText.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
    @Override
    public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
        if(!hasFocus) {
            editText.setEnabled(false);
        }
    }
});