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Android

Posted by Nic Henstridge
Nic Henstridge
4,044 Points

Building an interactive story android app - Text is editable when running completed app on phone?

HI,

Have just finished this module and when I run the app on my phone to test I have noticed that the text is editable. Should this be happening? Have I missed a step in locking this down during the dev?

Cheers!

1 Answer

Daniel Hartin
Daniel Hartin
18,106 Points

Hi Nic

If you don't want the text editable simply change the layouts to textbox instead of edittext. All your other code should work fine. The only real difference is the included function for the user to edit the text with an edittext.

Daniel

Nic Henstridge
Nic Henstridge
4,044 Points

Fantastic thanks. Newbie question.. How do I achieve this? Can't see anywhere to edit the type in the xml

Nic Henstridge
Nic Henstridge
4,044 Points

Ah got it. Right click and select - Morphing - TextView

Daniel Hartin
Daniel Hartin
18,106 Points

In you XML file you should have something like

<EditText android:layout_height="match_parent" android:layout_width="match_parent"

</EditText>

Change the tags that say EditText to TextView. You will also need to alter the Java code slightly to adopt the new type.