Why won't my EditText element accept any input on Android?

Question

Here's the code for my EditText element:

<EditText
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textIsSelectable="true"
    android:text=""
    android:id="@+id/myTextEdit"/>

The entire app builds and I'm not using this element in code yet, but when it shows up on the screen I cannot type into the element.

This EditText element will not accept text any time I try to type into it.

Do you know why?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 29 '15 at 20:48

The entire reason it fails is because the EditText element is already selectable. For some reason adding the following property causes the element to be uneditable:

android:textIsSelectable="true"

I removed the property from the layout and I could type text into the element.

Why won't my EditText element accept any input on Android?

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