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Soft keyboard not showing up at program startup

I've browsed similar questions and followed the suggestions there, but for the love of god, I can't get this to work, and it's driving me crazy. So here's the deal:
I have an editText, which needs to requestFocus at program startup, and pop the soft keyboard. If I put "android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible" in the Manifest, the keboard shows every time the activity starts. I only want it to show once with onCreate(), and when the user specifically clicks on the editText. My code for this is below:
EditText argument;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_radio_buttons);
argument = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText_argument);
InputMethodManager imm = InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(argument, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
Q1) This code doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?
Q2) You see that I declared "EditText argument" outside of onCreate(), as I'd like to use this in the rest of the activity, not just within onCreate(). Is this good programming practice?
Q3) Then, when the user clicks done on the soft keyboard, I'd like this EditText to lose focus, i.e. the cursor should disappear. I understand that I need to have a dummy View to do this, but I still don't exactly understand how to switch focus to the dummy. How would I go about doing that?
Thanks so much in advance!

A1) You're missing a editText.requestFocus().
Refer: Soft Keyboard shows up on EditText focus ONLY once should help for dismissing soft keyboard.
A2) Yes, that's fine. Most of the UI elments should be declared at the class level scope and initialized in onCreate()
A3) A1's reference link should help you here.
Happy Coding!
EDIT:
onCreate():
EditText argument;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_radio_buttons);
argument = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText_argument);
showKeyboard():
argument.requestFocus();
argument.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
InputMethodManager keyboard = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
keyboard.showSoftInput(argument, 0);
}
},200);
dismissKeyboard():
argument.requestFocus();
argument.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
InputMethodManager keyboard = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
keyboard.hideSoftInputFromWindow(argument.getWindowToken(), 0);
}
},200);

Can't edit an edittext in a popup window without dismissing and recalling it first

I am using a popup window to display some information and have an edit button that allows that information to be changed. I am loading all textviews, buttons and edittext fields and hiding/showing them as needed. The edittext fields are not letting me edit them. I have tried the below suggestion about setting focusable to true, but that isn't working. Any other suggestions?
Tried this: EditText On A Popup Window
EDIT: Below is part of my code. I've just included the parts for initializing the edittext and showing the popup contents since everything else is working, just not the edittext. I am using a tablelayout, and when the user clicks a row, the popup window displays. Keep in mind I'm still pretty new to Java and Android!
EDIT #2: The softkeyboard was not showing when the edittext was selected, but now it will show if I dismiss the popup once and then call it again. I then tried forcing the softkeyboard to display, and it showed behind the popup (another problem). I was able to select the number 1 since it was barely showing behind the popup window, but it didn't seem to work either. The fix was the same here: dismiss the popup window and recall it. So my remaining problem is being able to type into the edittext without having to dismiss the popup once and recall it. As such, I am changing the title of this question.
row1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
final EditText pwETBrand = (EditText) vPopUp.findViewById(R.id.et_editbrand);
if (!infoClick) {
infoClick = true;
// Popup elements initialized earlier
pwInfo.showAtLocation(llInfo, Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL | Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL, 0, 0);
pwInfo.update(0, 0, llMain.getWidth()-50, llMain.getHeight()-100);
pwInfo.setFocusable(true);
....
// Hide some elements initially until "EDIT" button is pressed
pwETBrand.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
....
// When EDIT button is pressed, hide default elements, and show edit elements
pwEdit.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v2) {
pwETBrand.setVisivility(View.VISIBLE);
// Other element settings go here
pwInfo.setFocusable(true);
}
)};
....
}
}

I have implemented a solution, though it may not be the best solution. I have set a boolean field at the class initialization that checks if the popupwindow has ever been called. If it has not yet been called, then it will immediately dismiss the popupwindow and re-open it since my problem is in the popupwindow initialization.
pwInfo.showAtLocation(llInfo, Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL | Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL, 0, 0);
pwInfo.update(0, 0, llMain.getWidth()-50, llMain.getHeight()-100);
pwInfo.setFocusable(true);
if (pwFirst) {
pwFirst = false;
pwInfo.dismiss();
pwInfo.showAtLocation(llInfo, Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL | Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL, 0, 0);
pwInfo.update(0, 0, llMain.getWidth()-50, llMain.getHeight()-100);
pwInfo.setFocusable(true);
}
Not the best solution, but it works.

Try this,
final PopupWindow popupWindow = new PopupWindow(popupView,LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,true);
works for me.

Use Below Link's Code for that, it may help you.
Popup With Edittext

Whenever you create a PopupWindow you must put true in focusable like that :
PopupWindow(View contentView, int width, int height, boolean focusable)
final PopupWindow popupWindow = new PopupWindow(popupView,LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,true);
good luck

Popup Keyboard issue in android, when column limits are specified

Im working on an input method for android and one of the tasks is to implement a custom popup keyboard for hard keyboard key presses. Usually input methods let the editor handle that but the thing is I need to add more symbols than android supports.
So I implemented the popup keyboard and even have it displaying well when a hard key (character key) is long pressed.
The steps I've followed are:
Create popup window.
Inflate a linear layout which contains a keyboardview and a close button and save it to a view object
bind the keyboardview and close buttons to the relevant objects
Create a keyboard for the popup characters and set it as the keyboard for the keyboard view. The keyboard has a column limit of 5.
set the linear layout as the content view for the popup window
Display the popup window
THE ISSUE: If there are multiple rows in the popup keyboard I am only able to select key in the last row for the column. Even if I click on the key in the first row of that column, the key in the last row gets selected.
If anyone could explain why this is happening and how do I fix it, Id appreciate it.
THE CODE:
PopupWindow mPopupKeyboard = new PopupWindow(this.getBaseContext());
mPopupKeyboard.setBackgroundDrawable(null);
if(mPopupKeyboard != null)
{
this.dismissPopupKeyboard();
View mMiniKeyboardContainer = null;
KeyboardView mMiniKeyboard = null;
View closeButton = null;
mMiniKeyboardContainer = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.keyboard_popup_keyboard, null);
mMiniKeyboard = (KeyboardView) mMiniKeyboardContainer.findViewById(R.id.popup_keyboardView);
closeButton = mMiniKeyboardContainer.findViewById(R.id.closeButton);
if (closeButton != null)
{
closeButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()
{
#Override
public void onClick(View arg0)
{
mPopupKeyboard.dismiss();
});
}
mMiniKeyboard.setOnKeyboardActionListener(this);
String resourcestring = "abcdefghi";
mMiniKeyboard.setKeyboard(new Keyboard(this.getBaseContext(), R.xml.kbd_popup_template, alternates, 3, 0));
mMiniKeyboard.setPopupParent(mCandidateView);
mPopupKeyboard.setContentView(mMiniKeyboardContainer);
mPopupKeyboard.setWidth(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
mPopupKeyboard.setHeight(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
mPopupKeyboard.showAtLocation(mCandidateView, Gravity.TOP, 0, 0);
}

I had a similar problem with popup keyboards. I found that it was a problem only with Android 2.3. My only workaround was to avoid popup keyboards with more than one row.

The reason this occurs is because KeyboardView sends off the MotionEvent. MotionEvent.getRawX() and getRawY() only return coordinates within the bounds of KeyboardView. If the MotionEvent happens above KeyboardView, it returns the closest absolute coordinates in KeyboardView.
One solution is to create an invisible View above KeyboardView. It will have to detect the MotionEvent and then pass the MotionEvent back to KeyboardView and then your multirow popup keyboard will work
For the starting code look at CandidateViews above the KeyboardView. For example look at this project:
https://github.com/blackcj/AndroidCustomKeyboard
In the
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec)
(https://github.com/blackcj/AndroidCustomKeyboard/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/blackcj/customkeyboard/CandidateView.java)
method add 200 to desiredHeight in this statement:
setMeasuredDimension(measuredWidth, resolveSize(desiredHeight, heightMeasureSpec));
Notice how this will cause the motionEvent.getRawY() to work for an extra 200p in height

How to remove focus without setting focus to another control?

I like my UIs to be intuitive; each screen should naturally and unobtrusively guide the user on to the next step in the app. Barring that, I strive to make things as confusing and confounding as possible.
Just kidding :-)
I've got three TableRows, each containing a read-only and non-focusable EditText control and then a button to its right. Each button starts the same activity but with a different argument. The user makes a selection there and the sub-activity finishes, populating the appropriate EditText with the user's selection.
It's the classic cascading values mechanism; each selection narrows the available options for the next selection, etc. Thus I'm disabling both controls on each of the next rows until the EditText on the current row contains a value.
I need to do one of two things, in this order of preference:
When a button is clicked, immediately remove focus without setting focus to a different button
Set focus to the first button when the activity starts
The problem manifests after the sub-activity returns; the button that was clicked retains focus.
Re: #1 above - There doesn't appear to be a removeFocus() method, or something similar
Re: #2 above - I can use requestFocus() to set focus to the button on the next row, and that works after the sub-activity returns, but for some reason it doesn't work in the parent activity's onCreate().
I need UI consistency in either direction--either no buttons have focus after the sub-activity finishes or each button receives focus depending on its place in the logic flow, including the very first (and only) active button prior to any selection.

Using clearFocus() didn't seem to be working for me either as you found (saw in comments to another answer), but what worked for me in the end was adding:
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/my_layout"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true" ...>
to my very top level Layout View (a linear layout). To remove focus from all Buttons/EditTexts etc, you can then just do
LinearLayout myLayout = (LinearLayout) activity.findViewById(R.id.my_layout);
myLayout.requestFocus();
Requesting focus did nothing unless I set the view to be focusable.

Old question, but I came across it when I had a similar issue and thought I'd share what I ended up doing.
The view that gained focus was different each time so I used the very generic:
View current = getCurrentFocus();
if (current != null) current.clearFocus();

You can use View.clearFocus().
Use View.requestFocus() called from onResume().

android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
using the following in the activity with some layout options below seemed to work as desired.
getWindow().getDecorView().findViewById(android.R.id.content).clearFocus();
in connection with the following parameters on the root view.
<?xml
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants" />
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/ViewGroup#attr_android:descendantFocusability
Answer thanks to:
https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/1856/how-to-disable-auto-focus-on-edit-text
About windowSoftInputMode
There's yet another point of contention to be aware of. By default,
Android will automatically assign initial focus to the first EditText
or focusable control in your Activity. It naturally follows that the
InputMethod (typically the soft keyboard) will respond to the focus
event by showing itself. The windowSoftInputMode attribute in
AndroidManifest.xml, when set to stateAlwaysHidden, instructs the
keyboard to ignore this automatically-assigned initial focus.
<activity
android:name=".MyActivity"
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden"/>
great reference

<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"

What about just adding android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden" on your activity in the manifest.
Taken from a smart man commenting on this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2059394/956975

I tried to disable and enable focusability for view and it worked for me (focus was reset):
focusedView.setFocusable(false);
focusedView.setFocusableInTouchMode(false);
focusedView.setFocusable(true);
focusedView.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);

First of all, it will 100% work........
Create onResume() method.
Inside this onResume() find the view which is focusing again and again by findViewById().
Inside this onResume() set requestFocus() to this view.
Inside this onResume() set clearFocus to this view.
Go in xml of same layout and find that top view which you want to be focused and set focusable true and focusableInTuch true.
Inside this onResume() find the above top view by findViewById
Inside this onResume() set requestFocus() to this view at the last.
And now enjoy......

android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:focusable="true"
android:clickable="true"
Add them to your ViewGroup that includes your EditTextView.
It works properly to my Constraint Layout. Hope this help

You could try turning off the main Activity's ability to save its state (thus making it forget what control had text and what had focus). You will need to have some other way of remembering what your EditText's have and repopulating them onResume(). Launch your sub-Activities with startActivityForResult() and create an onActivityResult() handler in your main Activity that will update the EditText's correctly. This way you can set the proper button you want focused onResume() at the same time you repopulate the EditText's by using a myButton.post(new Runnable(){ run() { myButton.requestFocus(); } });
The View.post() method is useful for setting focus initially because that runnable will be executed after the window is created and things settle down, allowing the focus mechanism to function properly by that time. Trying to set focus during onCreate/Start/Resume() usually has issues, I've found.
Please note this is pseudo-code and non-tested, but it's a possible direction you could try.

You do not need to clear focus, just add this code where you want to focus
time_statusTV.setFocusable(true);
time_statusTV.requestFocus();
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)this.getSystemService(Service.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput( time_statusTV, 0);

Try the following (calling clearAllEditTextFocuses();)
private final boolean clearAllEditTextFocuses() {
View v = getCurrentFocus();
if(v instanceof EditText) {
final FocusedEditTextItems list = new FocusedEditTextItems();
list.addAndClearFocus((EditText) v);
//Focus von allen EditTexten entfernen
boolean repeat = true;
do {
v = getCurrentFocus();
if(v instanceof EditText) {
if(list.containsView(v))
repeat = false;
else list.addAndClearFocus((EditText) v);
} else repeat = false;
} while(repeat);
final boolean result = !(v instanceof EditText);
//Focus wieder setzen
list.reset();
return result;
} else return false;
}
private final static class FocusedEditTextItem {
private final boolean focusable;
private final boolean focusableInTouchMode;
#NonNull
private final EditText editText;
private FocusedEditTextItem(final #NonNull EditText v) {
editText = v;
focusable = v.isFocusable();
focusableInTouchMode = v.isFocusableInTouchMode();
}
private final void clearFocus() {
if(focusable)
editText.setFocusable(false);
if(focusableInTouchMode)
editText.setFocusableInTouchMode(false);
editText.clearFocus();
}
private final void reset() {
if(focusable)
editText.setFocusable(true);
if(focusableInTouchMode)
editText.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
}
}
private final static class FocusedEditTextItems extends ArrayList<FocusedEditTextItem> {
private final void addAndClearFocus(final #NonNull EditText v) {
final FocusedEditTextItem item = new FocusedEditTextItem(v);
add(item);
item.clearFocus();
}
private final boolean containsView(final #NonNull View v) {
boolean result = false;
for(FocusedEditTextItem item: this) {
if(item.editText == v) {
result = true;
break;
}
}
return result;
}
private final void reset() {
for(FocusedEditTextItem item: this)
item.reset();
}
}

Defining EditText imeOptions when using InputMethodManager.showSoftInput(View, int, ResultReceiver)

In my application I have a custom view which requires some text input. As the view in itself doesn't contain any actual views (it's a Surface with custom drawing being done), I have a FrameLayout which contains the custom view and underneath it an EditText -view. When the user does a specific action, the custom view is hidden and the EditText takes over for user input. This works fine, but android:imeOptions seem to be ignored for this view. I'm currently doing this:
InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager)parent.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
EditText t = (EditText)parent.findViewById(R.id.DummyEditor);
t.setImeOptions(EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE);
inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(t, 0, new ResultReceiver(mHandler) {
#Override
protected void onReceiveResult(
int resultCode, Bundle resultData) {
// We're done
System.out.println("Editing done : " +
((EditText)parent.findViewById(R.id.DummyEditor)).getText());
}
}
);
It seems that the setImeOptions(EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE) has no effect. I've also tried adding the option to the layout XML with android:imeOptions="actionDone". No help.
Any ideas?

this post looks like will answer your question:
How do I handle ImeOptions' done button click?