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My PopupWindow keeps stealing my EditText's focus

I have a simple "command dialog" that's a PopupWindow containing an EditText and a couple of buttons. I want the following behavior:
Touching outside the popup window dismisses it
When the popup appears, the EditText should grab (and keep) the focus
My EditText looks like this:
<EditText
android:id="#+id/send_cmd_text"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:maxLines="1"
android:hint="#string/send_cmd_hint"
android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
android:minEms="100"
android:layout_marginLeft="3dp"
android:layout_marginRight="3dp"
android:textColorHint="#BBBBBB"
android:inputType="text"
android:imeOptions="actionSend" >
<requestFocus />
</EditText>
The popup construction looks like this:
val popup = PopupWindow(view)
popup.isOutsideTouchable = true
popup.isTouchable = true
popup.isFocusable = true
popup.contentView = view
// This bizarre hack allows outside touching to dismiss it.
popup.setBackgroundDrawable(ColorDrawable(Color.TRANSPARENT))
sendButton.setOnClickListener {
sendCommand()
popup.dismiss()
}
if (A.isHardwareKeyboardAvailable()) {
// This only fires for the hardware keyboard.
editText.setOnKeyListener { _, code, event -> handleKey(code, event) }
} else {
setImeListener()
}
editText.requestFocus()
There seems to be a race condition occurring. I've got a hardware keyboard attached, and there are two ways to open the popup:
I can hit the Enter key, which the Activity notices, and then it calls the function to construct and show the popup.
I can press a button in my UI, which calls the same function.
Whenever I open the popup by pressing the button, the EditText gets the focus and everyone is happy.
Whenever I open the popup by pressing the Enter key on my hardware keyboard, the EditText gets the focus briefly, and then becomes unfocused. I suspect without proof that the PopupWindow is stealing the focus.
I need the popup to be focusable -- otherwise the keypresses simply go to the Activity, where it becomes difficult to route them back to the EditText.
I also need the popup to be outsideTouchable, so it will dismiss when you touch outside it.
I've tried setting isTouchable to false, but it seems to have no effect either way.
I've tried various oddball suggestions I've found related to this issue, such as calling popup.update() and so on. Nothing has solved the problem.
Again, this only happens when I have opened the popup by hitting the Enter key. The only difference I can see is that perhaps the Activity gets the focus temporarily before I create the popup, whereas if I press the UI button to open the popup, the Activity never gets the keyboard focus. Not sure, though.
The only thing that has worked for me is to set a timer:
android.os.Handler().postDelayed({ editText.requestFocus() }, 250)
This does the trick, but is obviously lame and fragile.
Any idea how to prevent my popup from stealing the focus from an EditText inside it?

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final PopupWindow popUp = new PopupWindow(vbl.getMainLayout());
....
popUp.setFocusable(true);
popUp.update();

Layout in background is getting intracted when tap on foreground layout Android

I am designing a Tab based Android application and using Fragment. My first fragment Layout have few Edittexts and on navigating to other fragment which don't have any EditTexts, on tap is getting Virtual keypad to appear. And after few hours of testing, I found its caused by the EditText which is in the previous fragment. How to prevent this ?

Use this in ur activity where you dont want a virtual keyboard
activity=this.getActivity();
InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputMethodManager.hideSoftkey(activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);

#Joseph, Try to mention the efforts and implementation you have achieved up till now, this helps to point out the error or a mistake. For your question, try to set the focus of the layout you want to interact with. This may help you to have a requestCall()
Also check this:
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
Here is how you can set focus in XML. Put this code within the tag of the control you want the focus on when starting the application.
<requestFocus
android:duplicateParentState="true"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true" />

EditText: how to display the number while you are typing it?

I have three EditText widgets in my app and the XML for one of them is below. They work, mostly, but the problem is that the actual widget is at the bottom of my devices screen. When I tap the widget, and the numeric keypad is displayed, it completely covers the text entry window and I can't see what number I'm typing. Can I modify TextView so that when the Keypad is displayed on my device, it also displays the number that I'm currently typing?
<EditText
android:id="#+id/EditTextPrices" android:layout_width="100dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:inputType="number|numberDecimal"
android:singleLine="true" android.imeOptions="actionDone"/>
Another problem is that when I finish typing one number, instead of returning me to the main activity screen, it brings up the numeric keypad for the next TextEdit widget. I don't want this to happen. I had thought that setting android.imeOptions="actionDone" would cause the keypad to go away and be done when I finished typing the number, but not so. How can I stop the 'next' window from appearing?

Look into adding android:windowSoftInputMode to your manifest file. "adjustPan" as it's value is probably what you want though I've found that it sometimes fails to account for the space taken just above a softkeyboard by the strip of word-guesses while you're typing things in.

Add android:windowSoftInputMode=”adjustPan” to your manifest for the activity. That will cause the activity to scroll up so that the focused edit text is always on screen.

The other advice given to use adjustPan is good, and another idea is to put your layout in a scroll view.
Regarding your second problem, how are you handling actionDone?
For example this is how I hide the keyboard (or do whatever you want when they press done).
final EditText editTextPrices = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextPrices);
editTextPrices.setOnEditorActionListener(new OnEditorActionListener() {
#Override
public boolean onEditorAction(TextView view, int actionID, KeyEvent event) {
if (actionID == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE) {
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) MyClass.this.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(bugemailaddress.getWindowToken(), 0);
// DO OTHER HANDLING OF INPUT HERE
return true;
}
return false;
}
});

Android show input keyboard only when user press a button

I have a PopupWindow in one Activity.
When user press on the list item in the activity, the window will popup for getting input from users.
There are some EditText in the window. And also I provided some buttons that preset some text on it, so when user press on it then it will enter to the edittext.
I can disable the softkeyboard when the window first popup. But when I change the focus on edittext (Move from one edittext to another edittext), the keyboard shown up.
I want the softkeyboard show only when user press on the "show keyboard" button in the popup window
How can I do it?
Updated:
public void onFocusChange(View view, boolean hasFocus) {
if (hasFocus) {
selectedEditText = (EditText)view;
String text = selectedEditText.getText().toString();
selectedEditText.setSelection(text.length());
InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(selectedEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);
}
}
I tried the code above but it still showing.

set onFocusChangedListener() on every editText you have and disable Keyboard Pop inside it if it has focus..
Show it only when the user Presses the button..

There is very simple solution too; create fake focus above your EditText and you good to go.
Like this:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true">
</LinearLayout>
<!--Your EditText-->
<EditText
...
</EditText>
also you can add these two line above your mentioned EditText in any VIEW, like TextView and so on.
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

Go to the xml and find the activity in which you want to hide keyboard
add given attribute to the Activity..
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden"

Show soft keyboard (numeric) using AlertDialog.Builder

I have an EditText in an AlertDialog, but when it pops up, I have to click on the text box before the keyboard pops up. This EditText is declared in the XML layout as "number", so when the EditText is clicked, a numeric keypad pops up. I want to eliminate this extra tap and have the numeric keypad pop up when the AlertDialog is loaded.
All of the other solutions I found involve using
dialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
This is NOT an acceptable solution, as this results in the standard keyboard rather than the numeric keyboard popping up. Does anyone have a way to make the numeric keyboard pop up in an AlertDialog, preferably while keeping my layout defined in XML?
AlertDialog dialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(this)
.setTitle("Mark Runs")
.setView(markRunsView)
.setPositiveButton("OK", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
EditText runs = (EditText)markRunsView.findViewById(R.id.runs_marked);
int numRuns = Integer.parseInt(runs.getText().toString());
// ...
})
.setNegativeButton("Cancel", null)
.show();
Edit: I want to be perfectly clear that my layout already has:
android:inputType="number"
android:numeric="integer"
I also tried this:
//...
.setNegativeButton("Cancel", null)
.create();
EditText runs = (EditText)markRunsView.findViewById(R.id.runs_marked);
runs.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);
dialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
dialog.show();
but that also did not work. With the setSoftInputMode line, I still get the full keyboard when the AlertDialog loads; without it, I still get nothing. In either case, tapping on the text box will bring up the numeric keypad.
Edit Again:
This is the XML for the EditText
<EditText
android:id="#+id/runs_marked"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="4dip"
android:inputType="number"
android:numeric="integer">
<requestFocus/>
</EditText>

Coming a bit late, but today I had this same problem. This is how I solved it:
Call the keyboard when the Dialog opens just like you did:
dialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
Now, into the Dialog I'm assuming you have a EditText field that accepts only numbers. Just request focus on that field and the standard keybord will automatically transform into the numeric keyboard:
final EditText valueView = (EditText) dialogView.findViewById(R.id.editText);
valueView.requestFocus();
Now you just have to remember to dismiss the keyboard once you're done with the Dialog. Just put this in the positive/negative/neutral button click listener:
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(valueView.getWindowToken(), 0);

Just try to set the InputType by using setInputType().
EditText runs = (EditText)markRunsView.findViewById(R.id.runs_marked);
runs.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NUMBER_FLAG_DECIMAL);

I think that you should keep on using the setSoftInputMethod hack but also provide hints to android that you want a numeric input.
Using xml layout attributes
For this, you can use several xml attributes to your EditText xml definition (see android:inputType for available options)
Examples:
<EditText android:inputType="phone" ...
<EditText android:inputType="number" ...
<EditText android:inputType="numberSigned" ...
<EditText android:inputType="numberDecimal" ...
You can also both hint android to show digital keyboard and restrict input to acceptable characters with android:numeric
Examples:
<EditText android:numeric="integer" ...
<EditText android:numeric="signed" ...
<EditText android:numeric="decimal" ...
Programatically
Use EditText.setRawInputType(int) with constants such as TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER you will find in android:inputType
or TextView.setKeyListener(new NumberKeyListener())
EDIT
AlertDialog focus by default on the positive button. It seems that it is what is causing trouble here. You may look at this similar question and its answer.

Try to specify in layout xml for your edit box:
<EditText ...>
<requestFocus/>
</EditText>