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Android remove focus from all Views

This is a fairly simple question but I can't believe all answers I found were not working.
I have a layout with two EditText and the bottom of the window is just some remaining blank space. I'd like each EditText to loose focus when the user is clicking in the blank part of the window. So my guess is that I have to put something in the OnTouchListener of the root View:
rootView.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
#Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
// Put something here
}
});
I have tried several things:
Requesting focus from the layout View as suggested somewhere was in fact giving focus to one of the EditTexts.
I also tried setting setFocusable for both EditTexts to false but I was unable to put them back to true afterwards.
I also tried the simple rootView.clearFocus(), but it was also giving back the focus to one EditText.
EDIT: My EditText boxes are multilines so I can't use a 'Done' keyboard button since I need the return one to be present.

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/ll_root_view"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
LinearLayout llRootView = findViewBindId(R.id.ll_root_view);
llRootView.clearFocus();
I use this when already finished update profile info and remove all focus from EditText in my layout
====> Update: In parent layout content my EditText add line:
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

In Kotlin:
view?.clearFocus()
In Java:
getView().clearFocus();

Touch a button behind an invisible view

See the picture, i have a button and it is behind an invisible view (the red line), lets say a gridview, or just simply LinearLayout. Is there any possible way that will let me touch or click the button behind this invisible view? Thank you.
NOTE : i have my reason why i need the button behind the view, i just illustrated it using this picture for you guys to know what i meant. The button has to behind the view :))

android:focusable="false"
android:focusableInTouchMode="false"
android:clickable="false"
Declare it in your layout.
Let me know if it helps you.

Yes Its possible. Until or unless your invisible view is not clickable. so check your invisible layout structure. make android:clickable="false"

1 way you can do this is:
1. add an onTouch(View view, MotionEventevent) Listener to your layout
2. get the buttons bounds
3. Check if the touch event was done inside the bounds
The code should look something like this:
Button button;
Rect rect;
onCreate(){
rect = button.getClipBounds();
layout.setOnTouchListener(this)
}
onTouch(View view, MotionEvent event){
if(rect.contains(event.getX(), event.getY())
//insert action here
}

Scrolling in Horizontal ScrollView loses focus of focused element,

Before Scrolling:
During Scrolling:
What I expect during scrolling:
I have a problem with HorizontalScrollView. When I choose an element from this View, I set focus to that element by calling:
else if (v.getParent() == candidatesScrollView.getChildAt(0))
{
Button candidateButton = (Button) v;
v.requestFocusFromTouch();
v.setSelected(true);
(...)
}
After that, when I scroll the list without choosing other element, I lose focus of previously selected element. I made some research about this topic, but there was no solution that could work for me... How can I scroll my HorizontalScrollList without loosing focus from selected element? Any Help is Appreciated. It has been about 14 days since I asked that question and still didn't find solution. Please help.
Here is part of my XML:
<HorizontalScrollView
android:id="#+id/CandidatesHorizontalScrollView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_above="#+id/linearLayout2"
android:clickable="false"
android:focusable="false"
android:focusableInTouchMode="false"
android:visibility="gone" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:clickable="false"
android:focusable="false"
android:focusableInTouchMode="false"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/horizontalscrollview1_button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Button"
android:textSize="25sp" />
(...)
// 11 more buttons
</LinearLayout>
</HorizontalScrollView>
UPDATE
MY CURRENT SOLUTION #1 (not working correctly):
After scrolling, and then scrolling again (for example scrolling back), scrolling starts from selected element.
I created custom HorizontalScrollView class inside which I overridden onTouchEvent() method. I don't think this is optimal way of doing that, because in that case I have to do calculations every time I move even one pixel. for example, if I add toast.show() to the below method, it will try to show as many toast as many I moved pixels (If I move by 10 pixels, it will try to show 10 Toast). Anyway, it works for me and the selection and focus are being kept. Please help me modify this code to make finally a good answer for that known issue:
#Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev)
{
int i = 0;
Button button = null;
for (; i < 11; i++)
{
button = (Button)((LinearLayout)getChildAt(0)).getChildAt(i);
if(button.isSelected())
break;
}
super.onTouchEvent(ev);
button.setSelected(true);
button.requestFocusFromTouch();
return true;
}
To be sure that the above code will work, you need to have only one selected item in your HorizontalScrollView at a time, i.e when you press diferent button, you need to make the previous one setSelected(false)
MY CURRENT SOLUTION #2 (not working correctly):
Solution #2 that I tried to implement, thinking that first one is not elegant enough, involves usage of gesture detector. In my custom HorizontalListView class I have added the following code:
Constructor:
public MyHorizontalScrollView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
this.context = context;
gestureDetector = new GestureDetector(context, new MyHorizontalScrollViewGestureDetector());
this.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
#Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
gestureDetector.onTouchEvent(event);
return true;
}
});
// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
}
MyHorizontalScrollViewGestureDetector internal class:
public class MyHorizontalScrollViewGestureDetector extends SimpleOnGestureListener
{
#Override
public boolean onScroll(MotionEvent e1, MotionEvent e2, float distanceX, float distanceY)
{
//Here code similar like that one in solution #1
//But the View is not scrolling, even without that code
super.onScroll(e1, e2, distanceX, distanceY);
return true;
}
}
However, the list is not scrolling with that solution. I can add to onScroll method:
ScrollBy((int)positionX, (int)positionY);
which makes the list will scroll, but not in a good way ad it will freeze sometimes.
I am wondering why scrolling is not called by the super. method.
MY CURRENT SOLUTION #3 (working, but it is walk-around):
Because both solution 1 and 2 were not working, I decided to not play with focus anymore.
What I do now, is to change the Button Drawable whenever I click it and every time when I change to different Button. I use same Drawable as is used for focused button (Holo). In that case, I don't have to be worried about scrolling in HorizontalScrollView. This solution is some kind of walk-around, so I am looking forward to any comments, suggestions and edits.

Can the following solution be applicable (I took the idea from here):
You may want to try creating your own custom class that extends HorizontalScrollView and overriding the onScrollChanged() function as such:
public class TestHorizontalScrollView extends HorizontalScrollView {
public TestHorizontalScrollView(Context context) {
super(context);
}
#Override
protected void onScrollChanged(int l, int t, int oldl, int oldt) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
Log.i("Scrolling", "X from ["+oldl+"] to ["+l+"]");
Button button = null;
for (; i < 11; i++)
{
button = (Button)((LinearLayout)getChildAt(0)).getChildAt(i);
if(button.isSelected())
break;
}
button.setSelected(true);
button.requestFocusFromTouch();
super.onScrollChanged(l, t, oldl, oldt);
}
}
Now that you have detected the scroll (we're speaking about one of the HorizontalScrollView) you can set again the selected status of the corresponding button. Can you please try this solution out and see if it works. I'm very interested in the resolution of this one, as the question is quite interesting also.
Anyway, I managed to find the following article. They state there that:
Imagine a simple application, ApiDemos for example, that shows a list
of text items. The user can freely navigate through the list using the
trackball and they can also scroll and fling the list using their
finger. The issue in this scenario is the selection. If I select an
item at the top of the list and then fling the list towards the
bottom, what should happen to the selection? Should it remain on the
item and scroll off the screen? In this case, what would happen if I
then decide to move the selection with the trackball? Or worse, if I
press the trackball to act upon the currently selected item, which is
not shown on screen anymore. After careful considerations, we decided
to remove the selection altogether.
In touch mode, there is no focus and no selection. Any selected item
in a list of in a grid becomes unselected as soon as the user enters
touch mode. Similarly, any focused widgets become unfocused when the
user enters touch mode. The image below illustrates what happens when
the user touches a list after selecting an item with the trackball.
Anyway, the statements there didn't make me happy and I went further to find this:
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
Also set android:clickable="true" (you might as well set android:focusable="true" of the LinearLayout).
Try adding those to the buttons and to the Layout that contains them.
Try everything.
I'l try backing you up as much as I can.
Cheers

I remember having a problem with scroll views that I think was similar to the problem you're having.
The solution I came up with was to override the onRequestFocusInDescendants method in the HorizontalScrollView class. This requires you creating your own class extended from HorizontalScrollView if you aren't already doing so.
In my case, I always returned true from the method. This tells the caller that you have taken care of the focus change so it shouldn't try to do anything further.
#Override
protected boolean onRequestFocusInDescendants(int direction, Rect previouslyFocusedRect) {
return true;
}
Depending on your requirements, you may find it necessary to return true only under certain conditions (say when a scroll is in progress), otherwise forward the call to the superclass.

This question has no answer except for custom way of doing it, as you might have already done like changing the drawables. Reason is when you slide, the focus goes to the HorizontalScroll, and you can only focus on one item, it makes no sense to focus more than one view. So either implement a drawable (which you seem to have done) or extend a checkbox and override the functionality so when it is focused it is checked and changes the looks.

I have found a solution to my problem. You can see the updated question for details. Basically, instead of using focus I decided to use Drawable selector, which is much more easier.

ListView clickable false not working

I would like to make Android ListView non clickable for sometime, until my AysncTask finished.
So I Used
lv.setClickable(false);
But its not working. ListView still takes clicks. Need help.

What has worked for me is setting two attributes in the XML for my list items. I set clickable="false" and focusable="true". So each of my list items is inflating an XML file similar to this one:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:clickable="false"
android:focusable="true" >
<!-- Children here -->
</LinearLayout>
I'm not sure exactly why this works, although this is my guess:
Using just the clickable attribute doesn't work because although the LinearLayout isn't clickable, the children inside it still are. Then the children get the click event but don't use it and forward it up to the LinearLayout.
By making the LinearLayout focusable, it will now take the click event, and then drop it because it isn't clickable.
Hope this helps. If anyone knows for sure why this approach works, please chime in.

Try this instead:
lv.setEnabled(false);
EDIT: ok sorry my fault.
I think the problem is that its not the ListView you are clicking but the View representing each item in your ListView. So try this:
View itemView = lv.findViewTraversal(id_of_your_view);
itemView.setClickable(false);
I hope this works.

did you try setFocusable / setEnabled methods ?
You can in your onItemClick method :
if(!mWorking){
mWorking = true;
//do the job...
}
You can try to implement a SimpleOnGestureDetector and override the onSingleTapConfirmed method. There is a lot of tuts on google.
I hope this will help you

android: listview inside a scrollView doesn't work?

I am having a listview inside a scrollview, but the problem is that the scrollview is scrolling but listview is not scrolling. I think this is due to that scrollView.
Can somebody who has a working solution post it here as reference?

Generally, you cannot put scrollable things inside other scrollable things, where they scroll in the same direction, and have the results be reliable. Occasionally this works (e.g., WebViews in a ViewPager), but that is the exception, not the norm.
Either:
Move the ListView out of the ScrollView, or
Move all the rest of the contents of the ScrollView into the ListView, whether using things like addHeaderView() or my MergeAdapter

If you put your ListView/any scrollable View inside the scrollView it will not work properly because when you touch the screen ,main focus of your touch is on parent view(scrollView ) not the child View (ListView).

ListView must have fixed height as below in your XML file
<ListView android:id="#+id/lv"
android:listSelector="#0f0"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="500px" />
In Java file, write below code after setContentView()
lv = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.lv);
lv.setAdapter(your adapter here); // you have to add your adapter here
lv.setOnTouchListener(new ListView.OnTouchListener() {
#Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE)
{
lv.scrollBy(0, 1);
}
return false;
}
});
Make these changes to your code and test it. After too many experiments i written this code. It is working 100% fine.