EditText: Disable Paste/Replace menu pop-up on Text Selection Handler click event

Solution: Override isSuggestionsEnabled and canPaste in EditText.

For the quick solution, copy the class below - this class overrides the EditText class, and blocks all events accordingly.

For the gritty details, keep reading.

The solution lies in preventing PASTE/REPLACE menu from appearing in the show() method of the (non-documented) android.widget.Editor class. Before the menu appears, a check is done to if (!canPaste && !canSuggest) return;. The two methods that are used as the basis to set these variables are both in the EditText class:

• isSuggestionsEnabled() is public, and may thus be overridden.
• canPaste() is not, and thus must be hidden by introducing a function of the same name in the derived class.

So incorporating these updates into a class that also has the setCustomSelectionActionModeCallback, and the disabled long-click, here is the full class to prevent all editing (but still display the text selection handler) for controlling the cursor:

package com.cjbs.widgets;import android.content.Context;import android.util.AttributeSet;import android.view.ActionMode;import android.view.Menu;import android.view.MenuItem;import android.widget.EditText;/** *  This is a thin veneer over EditText, with copy/paste/spell-check removed. */public class NoMenuEditText extends EditText{    private final Context context;    /** This is a replacement method for the base TextView class' method of the same name. This      * method is used in hidden class android.widget.Editor to determine whether the PASTE/REPLACE popup     * appears when triggered from the text insertion handle. Returning false forces this window     * to never appear.     * @return false     */    boolean canPaste()    {       return false;    }    /** This is a replacement method for the base TextView class' method of the same name. This method     * is used in hidden class android.widget.Editor to determine whether the PASTE/REPLACE popup     * appears when triggered from the text insertion handle. Returning false forces this window     * to never appear.     * @return false     */    @Override    public boolean isSuggestionsEnabled()    {        return false;    }    public NoMenuEditText(Context context)    {        super(context);        this.context = context;        init();    }    public NoMenuEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)    {        super(context, attrs);        this.context = context;        init();    }    public NoMenuEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle)    {        super(context, attrs, defStyle);        this.context = context;        init();    }    private void init()    {        this.setCustomSelectionActionModeCallback(new ActionModeCallbackInterceptor());        this.setLongClickable(false);    }    /**     * Prevents the action bar (top horizontal bar with cut, copy, paste, etc.) from appearing     * by intercepting the callback that would cause it to be created, and returning false.     */    private class ActionModeCallbackInterceptor implements ActionMode.Callback    {        private final String TAG = NoMenuEditText.class.getSimpleName();        public boolean onCreateActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) { return false; }        public boolean onPrepareActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) { return false; }        public boolean onActionItemClicked(ActionMode mode, MenuItem item) { return false; }        public void onDestroyActionMode(ActionMode mode) {}    }} 

I've tested this in Android v4.4.2 and v4.4.3.

or simply just use

yourEditText.setLongClickable(false);

OR in XML

android:longClickable="false"

Update

Actually the user wants to disable the text selection handle itself

1. Create a shape (handle.xml)

 <shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:shape="rectangle" > <size    android:height="0dp"    android:width="0dp" /> </shape>

2. In your EditText

 android:textSelectHandle="@drawable/handle"

Here is a hack to disable "paste" popup. You have to override EditText method:

@Overridepublic int getSelectionStart() {    for (StackTraceElement element : Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()) {        if (element.getMethodName().equals("canPaste")) {            return -1;        }    }    return super.getSelectionStart();}

This solution works on newer versions of Android as well, unlike the accepted answer.