android:editable="false",How to replicate android:editable="false" in code? - Stack Overfl...

The only solution I have found for this scenario is to create 2 layouts. One is editable and one is not. You may have to create more than 2 layouts based on various conditions. Store the conditions in SharedPreferences or other means and load the relevant layout based on conditions after restarting the Activity. Here's an example:

in onCreate() of the activity:

configuration = new Configuration(this.getSharedPreferences(Configuration.SHARED_PREFERENCES_FILE_NAME, Context.MODE_PRIVATE));

manualSettingsMode = configuration.isManualSettingsMode();

if(manualSettingsMode){

setContentView(R.layout.editableconfigurationsettings);

}else {

setContentView(R.layout.configurationsettings);

}

The activity can be restarted based on testing for condition and calling functions as:

private void setManualEditing(){

configuration.set_isManualSettingsMode(true);

this.recreate();

}

private void setAutoEditing(){

configuration.set_isManualSettingsMode(false);

this.recreate();

}

Hope this helps. There really has to be a better solution, but this is what I've been doing. Ideally, one would be able to do this on individual fields and not have to reload the activity / layouts. -bobby