How To Disable Copy and Paste from EditText

Question

I am using following code but it is not working when cursor blink and I click on that paste button display.

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;
    }
});

I don't want to hide Cursor.

How do I solve this issue?

Possible duplicate of [How to disable copy/paste from/to EditText](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6275299/how-to-disable-copy-paste-from-to-edittext) — phpdroid, Sep 15 '17 at 09:57
Do you have a paste button in your XML or is it the menu which opens in EditText itself? — Sufian, Sep 15 '17 at 10:00
This seems to be a bug with Android versions provided by your device's manufacturer. See the question [Custom ActionMode for TextView doesn't work on all devices](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21531237/custom-actionmode-for-textview-doesnt-work-on-all-devices). I wish they had put their solution in the answer. You could ask them though. — Sufian, Sep 18 '17 at 09:06

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 15 '17 at 09:54

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Try this:

edittext.setLongClickable(false);
edittext.setTextIsSelectable(false);

answered Sep 15 '17 at 09:54

R.R.M

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 15 '17 at 09:58

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You can use longClickable in xml file like:

 <EditText
    ... your edittext
   android:longClickable = "false"/>

or you can try in java like

youredittext.setLongClickable(false);

answered Sep 15 '17 at 09:58

Zaigham Raza

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 15 '17 at 09:52

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you can try this just make your editext LongClickable false like below code

from XML

android:longClickable="false"

from JAVA

edittext.setLongClickable(false);

answered Sep 15 '17 at 09:52

AskNilesh

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 22 '23 at 15:25

Maybe is too late but maybe I can help someone else. Everyone talk about this setCustomSelectionActionModeCallback but has another callback setCustomInsertionActionModeCallback that you have to set.

This one receive exactly the same callback parameter so you can create this interface as a val and pass for both methods/fun. Check code synthax before copy an paste, because I'm using Kotlin since 2019 o.o

private ActionMode.Callback callback = 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;
}
});
edittext.setCustomSelectionActionModeCallback(callback) 
edittext.setCustomInsertionActionModeCallback(callback)

How To Disable Copy and Paste from EditText

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