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focus is not shifting to next edittext automatically?

I am trying to add and remove edittext through RecyclerView Adapter and it's working fine but I also want to shift the focus to next empty edittext when I click on adapter item which fills the edit text. It would be grateful if someone could help ,I am newbie to android.
Here is my focus next method:
private void focusNext() {
View view = getAdapterView(mAddDropPointAdapter.getCurrentFocusedPosition() + 1);
}
if (view != null) {
view.findViewById(R.id.fragment_google_autoc_et_destination).requestFocus();
} else if (getActivity() != null) {
KeyboardUtils.hideKeyboard(getActivity());
}
}
Here is from where I am calling this method.
#Override
public void onAdapterItemClick(int position, #NonNull GoogleAutoCompleteAddressDto addressDto) {
/// Doing some stuff
focusNext();
}
After clicking the adapter item , focus stays at the same edittext it doesn't shift to next.

show/hide the content by clicking button

Hi I want to show/hide the content by clicking button. I am having a problem to hide the content by clicking button.
Here is my code for hiding the content
private boolean visible;
protected Button SearchButton;
private void Toggle(){
if(visible=false){
DishButton.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
SpoonButton.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
cupButton.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
FridgeButton.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
}
else {
DishButton.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
SpoonButton.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
cupButton.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
FridgeButton.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
visible=true;
}
}

if(visible=false)
is not gonna work!
Use if(visible==false).
Note that you can use View.GONE to hide the content and free the empty space.

From your comments and question it seems like
You have not put any listener to your button.
You have written = in place of ==.
You have user View.INVISILE which will permanently hide the element it will not come back. SO use View.GONE
You have some logic flaw in case of handling visible/invisible.
You have not initialized visible boolean with true because as first time you are showing all the buttons so it should be true.
So possible solution is
In your onCreate() method add
visible=true;
SearchButton.setOnclickListener(new OnClickListener()
{
public void onClick(View v)
{
Toggle();
}
});
And make the Toggle method look like
private void Toggle(){
if(visible==true){
DishButton.setVisibility(View.GONE);
SpoonButton.setVisibility(View.GONE);
cupButton.setVisibility(View.GONE);
FridgeButton.setVisibility(View.GONE);
visible=false;
}
else {
DishButton.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
SpoonButton.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
cupButton.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
FridgeButton.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
visible=true;
}
}

EditText's selectAll() does not select the text, instead cursor is moved to position 0

My situation is: I have a EditText, and under it I have a button, called "select all". It's purpose is to let the user select all the text by pressing it.
When the button is clicked, I invoke selectAll() on the EditText, but instead of selecting all text, in some cases (generally, when the cursor is already positioned within the text somewhere), the cursor is moved to position 0 (start of text) and text remains unselected. Second click on the button will then select all. But of course it should happen on first click.
From this issue: Android EditText selectAll() doesn't works if one taps on the same field in android 4.x only it seems that this is a bug in android 4.0 and above. (Found no mention in Google issue tracker).
Does anyone know about a way to overcome this problem? It seems that the probelm is also in other selection methods and not only selectAll().
(p.s. This question is sort of duplicate of the issue I mentioned above. But I opened another question, because the author of that issue was satisfied and selected a partial answer (of setting android:selectAllOnFocus="true"), while in my case and scenario it does not help me and does not solve the problem.
Thanks.

Problem caused by IME. If showed cursor drag pointer then selection must be zero width.
You need cancel drag pointer. It can be doned by change text. For example replace:
Editable text = edit.getText();
if (text.length() > 0) {
text.replace(0, 1, text.subSequence(0, 1), 0, 1);
edit.selectAll();
}
We replace first symbol of text with same symbol. It cause cancel drag pointer and allow make selection without bug.

I was having a similar issue. I solved it (using Xamarin in C#, but the equivalent Java will work) with the following code:
private void InitFocus()
{
Java.Lang.Runnable rable = new Java.Lang.Runnable(()=>
{
EditText maleCount = FindViewById<EditText>(Resource.Id.txtMaleCount);
maleCount.RequestFocus();
maleCount.SelectAll();
});
new Handler().Post(rable);
}
I have 2 controls: One is a dropdown that lets you select a chicken house and then a set of buttons for each day of the week. Whenever you change the day of week or the chicken house, I want to set focus in the txtMaleCount EditText and then I want the value in that box selected (since it's a number and they're presumably going to replace it).
Clearly, the non-intuitive part was the need to Post it. Doing it directly (on the UI thread) didn't seem to have any effect.

Try this:
yourEditText.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
//((EditText)v).selectAll();
((EditText)v).setSelection(startValue, stopValue);
}
});
Or This:
yourEditText.setOnFocusChangedListener(new OnFocusChangedListener(){
#Override
public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus){
if (hasFocus){
//((EditText)v).selectAll();
((EditText)v).setSelection(startValue, stopValue);
}
}
});
Or this:
theEditText.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View view) {
EditText editText = (EditText)view;
editText.setSelection(editText.getText().length()-1); // selects all the text
}
});
Or this:
theEditText.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View view) {
EditText editText = (EditText)view;
editText.performLongClick();
}
});
Hope this helps .. :)

Adding items to ListView, maintaining scroll position and NOT seeing a scroll jump

I'm building an interface similar to the Google Hangouts chat interface. New messages are added to the bottom of the list. Scrolling up to the top of the list will trigger a load of previous message history. When the history comes in from the network, those messages are added to the top of the list and should not trigger any kind of scroll from the position the user had stopped when the load was triggered. In other words, a "loading indicator" is shown at the top of the list:
Which is then replaced in-situ with any loaded history.
I have all of this working... except one thing that I've had to resort to reflection to accomplish. There are plenty of questions and answers involving merely saving and restoring a scroll position when adding items to the adapter attached to a ListView. My problem is that when I do something like the following (simplified but should be self-explanatory):
public void addNewItems(List<Item> items) {
final int positionToSave = listView.getFirstVisiblePosition();
adapter.addAll(items);
listView.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
listView.setSelection(positionToSave);
}
});
}
Then what the user will see is a quick flash to the top of the ListView, then a quick flash back to the right location. The problem is fairly obvious and discovered by many people: setSelection() is unhappy until after notifyDataSetChanged() and a redraw of ListView. So we have to post() to the view to give it a chance to draw. But that looks terrible.
I've "fixed" it by using reflection. I hate it. At its core, what I want to accomplish is reset the first position of the ListView without going through the rigamarole of the draw cycle until after I've set the position. To do that, there's a helpful field of ListView: mFirstPosition. By gawd, that's exactly what I need to adjust! Unfortunately, it's package-private. Also unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any way to set it programmatically or influence it in any way that doesn't involve an invalidate cycle... yielding the ugly behavior.
So, reflection with a fallback on failure:
try {
Field field = AdapterView.class.getDeclaredField("mFirstPosition");
field.setAccessible(true);
field.setInt(listView, positionToSave);
}
catch (Exception e) { // CATCH ALL THE EXCEPTIONS </meme>
e.printStackTrace();
listView.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
listView.setSelection(positionToSave);
}
});
}
}
Does it work? Yes. Is it hideous? Yes. Will it work in the future? Who knows? Is there a better way? That's my question.
How do I accomplish this without reflection?
An answer might be "write your own ListView that can handle this." I'll merely ask whether you've seen the code for ListView.
EDIT: Working solution with no reflection based on Luksprog's comment/answer.
Luksprog recommended an OnPreDrawListener(). Fascinating! I've messed with ViewTreeObservers before, but never one of these. After some messing around, the following type of thing appears to work quite perfectly.
public void addNewItems(List<Item> items) {
final int positionToSave = listView.getFirstVisiblePosition();
adapter.addAll(items);
listView.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
listView.setSelection(positionToSave);
}
});
listView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnPreDrawListener(new OnPreDrawListener() {
#Override
public boolean onPreDraw() {
if(listView.getFirstVisiblePosition() == positionToSave) {
listView.getViewTreeObserver().removeOnPreDrawListener(this);
return true;
}
else {
return false;
}
}
});
}
Very cool.

As I said in my comment, a OnPreDrawlistener could be another option to solve the problem. The idea of using the listener is to skip showing the ListView between the two states(after adding the data and after setting the selection to the right position). In the OnPreDrawListener(set with listViewReference.getViewTreeObserver().addOnPreDrawListener(listener);) you'll check the current visible position of the ListView and test it against the position which the ListView should show. If those don't match then make the listener's method return false to skip the frame and set the selection on the ListView to the right position. Setting the proper selection will trigger the draw listener again, this time the positions will match, in which case you'd unregister the OnPreDrawlistener and return true.

I was breaking up my head until I found a solution similar to this.
Before adding a set of items you have to save top distance of the firstVisible item and after adding the items do setSelectionFromTop().
Here is the code:
// save index and top position
int index = mList.getFirstVisiblePosition();
View v = mList.getChildAt(0);
int top = (v == null) ? 0 : v.getTop();
// for (Item item : items){
mListAdapter.add(item);
}
// restore index and top position
mList.setSelectionFromTop(index, top);
It works without any jump for me with a list of about 500 items :)
I took this code from this SO post: Retaining position in ListView after calling notifyDataSetChanged

The code suggested by the question author works, but it's dangerous.
For instance, this condition:
listView.getFirstVisiblePosition() == positionToSave
may always be true if no items were changed.
I had some problems with this aproach in a situation where any number of elements were added both above and below the current element. So I came up with a sligtly improved version:
/* This listener will block any listView redraws utils unlock() is called */
private class ListViewPredrawListener implements OnPreDrawListener {
private View view;
private boolean locked;
private ListViewPredrawListener(View view) {
this.view = view;
}
public void lock() {
if (!locked) {
locked = true;
view.getViewTreeObserver().addOnPreDrawListener(this);
}
}
public void unlock() {
if (locked) {
locked = false;
view.getViewTreeObserver().removeOnPreDrawListener(this);
}
}
#Override
public boolean onPreDraw() {
return false;
}
}
/* Method inside our BaseAdapter */
private updateList(List<Item> newItems) {
int pos = listView.getFirstVisiblePosition();
View cell = listView.getChildAt(pos);
String savedId = adapter.getItemId(pos); // item the user is currently looking at
savedPositionOffset = cell == null ? 0 : cell.getTop(); // current item top offset
// Now we block listView drawing until after setSelectionFromTop() is called
final ListViewPredrawListener predrawListener = new ListViewPredrawListener(listView);
predrawListener.lock();
// We have no idea what changed between items and newItems, the only assumption
// that we make is that item with savedId is still in the newItems list
items = newItems;
notifyDataSetChanged();
// or for ArrayAdapter:
//clear();
//addAll(newItems);
listView.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
// Now we can finally unlock listView drawing
// Note that this code will always be executed
predrawListener.unlock();
int newPosition = ...; // Calculate new position based on the savedId
listView.setSelectionFromTop(newPosition, savedPositionOffset);
}
});
}

How do I select all text when clicking on a EditText view?

so I tried android:selectAllOnFocus and of course I'm using android:hint.
The app loads, requestFocus triggers and the full text is selected.
The problem is that when I click in the EditText the selection is lost.
I've already read:
Select all text inside EditText when it gets focus

For some reason, it worked (on Jelly Bean) only if I posted it with a Handler:
new Handler().post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
paidView.selectAll();
}
});

Set the selection in an View.OnClickListener like so:
editText.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
editText.setSelection(0, editText.getText().length() - 1);
}
}

Set the selection in an View.OnClickListener like so: (with the 0 and text length opposite to the previously approved response) - this will ensure that when the user starts typing the content will be overridden.
editText.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
editText.setSelection(editText.getText().length() - 1, 0);
}
}

I realize this is an old post, but I had this same problem. For me, the reasoning was that I like to move the keyboard out of the way (dismiss it) to get my bearings (or hit buttons to add or remove rows of data) and when i touched back on the EditText I was previously editing, it was annoying to have the keyboard pop back up and the text un-select, forcing me to either work to get the cursor to where I wanted to start deleting, or touch another EditText and then touch back on the original to re-select everything. I just want to have the keyboard pop back up and have the text selected and ready to overwrite whenever I go to that EditText.
There are easy solutions to this:
1) Long tap does this for you on most occasions.
2) If you're already using setSelectAllOnFocus(true), you can just throw a simple clearFocus() and requestFocus() in your onClick listener:
etMyEditText.setSelectAllOnFocus(true);
etMyEditText.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View view) {
view.clearFocus();
view.requestFocus();
}
});
This way the EditText has everything selected when you tap on it, regardless of soft keyboard status.
Additional bonus:
Add android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" inside your <activity .../> tag in your AndroidManifest.xml file to force the selected EditText to stay in sight when the soft keyboard pops up.

try This
editText.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
editText.selectAll();
//or this.selectAll();
}
To select all the text.

Do the code below after you did findViewById and you are good to go:
edtProductPrice.setSelectAllOnFocus(true);
edtProductPrice.requestFocus();
edtProductPrice.selectAll();