I am using EditText in my app. I want that the cursor appears only after user touches the edit text box. how could I do this?
I have used this to hide the cursor first.
EditText
android:id="#+id/editText1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="90dp"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
android:cursorVisible="false"
android:ems="10"
how could I show it after touch?
Try to request focus for other views instead of letting your edittext get the focus in the first time view loaded. <requestFocus /> put this to your main view.
Try : edittext.clearFocus(); you can put it in the onCreate() it will set focus to the first view.
Implement :
mText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText1);
OnTouchListener otl = new OnTouchListener() {
#Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
mText.requestFocus()
return true;
}
};
mText.setOnTouchListener(otl);
Go to Layout file of your project and remove <requestFocus /> from the EditTexts for which you want the cursor to appear only when the user taps on the EditText box.
If in your layout file
<requestFocus />
is there, then just remove from the Edittext and because of this the cusrsor is only visible when user tap on to Edittext.
I have a EditText(searcField) in a android dialog, after I finished the editing, and dismiss the dialog.
then i go to other EditText, the focus is still in searchField.
Any idea?
thanks
EDIT:
there are too much to post in here, hope this can help a bit to understand my issue.
Customer dialog view
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingTop="5dip"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<EditText
android:id="#+id/search_field"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="left"
android:inputType="textNoSuggestions|textVisiblePassword"
android:layout_weight="0.70"
android:hint="type item name to search"/>
</LinearLayout>
<ListView
android:id="#+id/itemList"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:divider="#00000000"
android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
android:scrollbars="none"/>
</LinearLayout>
Java code
View searchView = getActivity().getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.search, null, false);
EditText searchField = (EditText)productEditView.findViewById(R.id.search_field);
searchField.addTextChangedListener(this);
...
public void afterTextChanged(Editable text) {
if (searchField.hasFocus()) {
Log.i("MyApp", "searchField is still focused");
return;
}
if (otherField.hasFocus()){
Log.i("MyApp", "other field");
return;
}
}
Another, albeit somewhat hacky, solution I regularly use is setting android:focusable="true" and android:focusableInTouchMode="true" to the parent view (LinearLayout, RelativeLayout, etc) of a layout if I want to be able to clearFocus() of an EditText, or open the Activity/Fragment without the first EditText from being focused automatically.
I don't know if it can be achieved through xml but you can do it programmatically when your dialog is dismissed by doing something like:
mView.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
mView.requestFocus();
To know when your dialog is dismissed simply override the onDismiss() callback method.
You have to add the following code after your editing code event :
seachview.clearfocus();
edittext.requestfocus();
I have a RelativeLayout inside of a ScrollView that contains a Button and some TextViews and EditTexts.
In my xml layout file, I am defining android:onClick but it always takes two clicks of the button to fire the event. The button always gets the focus on the first click and fires the onClick event on the second click. I have tried setting focusable and focusableInTouchMode both to false but the behavior doesn't change.
Here is my layout file:
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingBottom="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
tools:context=".DensityActivity" >
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<TextView
...
<TextView
...
<TextView
...
<EditText
...
<Button
android:id="#+id/ad_button_calculate"
android:layout_width="112dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/ad_edit_obs_temp"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_marginTop="20pt"
android:paddingLeft="6pt"
android:onClick="onClick"
android:focusable="false"
android:focusableInTouchMode="false"
android:text="#string/button_calculate" />
<TextView
...
</RelativeLayout>
</ScrollView>
Any ideas or suggestions as to why the focusable and focusableInTouchMode don't seem to do anything?
I thought it might be my onClick() method not doing what it should so I reduced it to something simple just to see and it behaves the same. Here is my simplified onClick():
public void onClick(View view) {
new AlertDialog.Builder(this).setTitle("Argh").setMessage("Watch out!").setNeutralButton("Close", null).show();
}
OK, I found it. It was, of course, my own mistake.
At the end of my onCreate method I was doing this:
// Set the focus to the calculate button so the keyboard won't show up automatically
Button calcButton = (Button)findViewById( R.id.ac_button_calculate );
calcButton.setFocusable( true );
calcButton.setFocusableInTouchMode( true );
calcButton.requestFocus();
So of course, no matter what I did in my xml file, I was overriding it in my code.
Instead, I used this to hide the keyboard:
getWindow().setSoftInputMode( WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN );
Which works great.
I've some settings page in my app. Once the activity gets starts directly it focus to edittext and i used following code to clear foucs.
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/RequestFocusLayout"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_height="0px"/>
and in java code
RelativeLayout focuslayout = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.RequestFocusLayout);
focuslayout.requestFocus();
The above code is working fine when activity starts at first time and if same activity starts again, automatically edittext get focus.
Can anyone help me to solve this issue.
Actually, the first focusable view in the activity receives initial focus. If that happens to be your EditText, it will be initially focused.
If you don't want that, here's your options:
Focus another view
Programmatically identify what view you do want to give initial focus to.
#Override
protected void onStart() {
super.onStart();
findViewById( R.id.yourOtherViewId ).requestFocus();
}
Make an earlier view in your layout focusable
If you rather it appears as though "no view has initial focus" you could make the parent view group focusable. In the following example, I make my LinearLayout focusable by setting android:focusableInTouchMode="true":
<LinearLayout
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical">
<EditText
...
If Come back from other activity edittext get focused.
put these line onStart() or on onReusme()
RelativeLayout focuslayout = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.RequestFocusLayout);
focuslayout.requestFocus();
If your EditText is a child of your RelativeLayout you can use android:descendantFocusability to request the focus:
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/RequestFocusLayout"
android:focusable="true"
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_height="0px"
android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true" />
I used the solution shown up in this page but it didn't work. Add this attribute to your activity tag into AndroidManifest:
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"
It works perfectly.
Me realy help only android:focusableInTouchMode="true" in my parent view group.
Put the code to remove the focus in your onStart() method and it should work fine.
In the layout XML file, specify an imeOption on your EditText:
android:imeOptions="actionGo"
Next, add an action listener to your EditText in the Activity's java file
mYourEditText.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_GO) {
// hide virtual keyboard
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(mYourEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);
return true;
}
return false;
}
});
Where mYourEditText is an EditText object
If on starting the Activity it focuses on EditText on the screen.
use
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
in the parent containing that EditText. Like if EditText is inside a RelativeLayout use this line in the RelativeLayout.
I have an Activity in Android, with two elements:
EditText
ListView
When my Activity starts, the EditText immediately has the input focus (flashing cursor). I don't want any control to have input focus at startup. I tried:
EditText.setSelected(false);
EditText.setFocusable(false);
No luck. How can I convince the EditText to not select itself when the Activity starts?
Adding the tags android:focusableInTouchMode="true" and android:focusable="true" to the parent layout (e.g. LinearLayout or ConstraintLayout) like in the following example, will fix the problem.
<!-- Dummy item to prevent AutoCompleteTextView from receiving focus -->
<LinearLayout
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_height="0px"/>
<!-- :nextFocusUp and :nextFocusLeft have been set to the id of this component
to prevent the dummy from receiving focus again -->
<AutoCompleteTextView android:id="#+id/autotext"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:nextFocusUp="#id/autotext"
android:nextFocusLeft="#id/autotext"/>
Is the actual problem that you just don't want it to have focus at all? Or you don't want it to show the virtual keyboard as a result of focusing on the EditText? I don't really see an issue with the EditText having a focus on the start, but it's definitely a problem to have the softInput window open when the user did not explicitly request to focus on the EditText (and open the keyboard as a result).
If it's the problem of the virtual keyboard, see the AndroidManifest.xml <activity> element documentation.
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden" - always hide it when entering the activity.
or android:windowSoftInputMode="stateUnchanged" - don't change it (e.g. don't show it if it isn't already shown, but if it was open when entering the activity, leave it open).
A simpler solution exists. Set these attributes in your parent layout:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/mainLayout"
android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true" >
And now, when the activity starts this main layout will get focused by default.
Also, we can remove focus from child views at runtime (e.g., after finishing child editing) by giving the focus to the main layout again, like this:
findViewById(R.id.mainLayout).requestFocus();
Good comment from Guillaume Perrot:
android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants" seems to be the
default (integer value is 0). It works just by adding
android:focusableInTouchMode="true".
Really, we can see that the beforeDescendants is set as default in the ViewGroup.initViewGroup() method (Android 2.2.2). But not equal to 0. ViewGroup.FOCUS_BEFORE_DESCENDANTS = 0x20000;
Thanks to Guillaume.
The only solution I've found is:
Create a LinearLayout (I don't know if other kinds of Layout will work)
Set the attributes android:focusable="true" and android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
And the EditText won't get the focus after starting the activity
The problem seems to come from a property that I can only see in the XML form of the layout.
Make sure to remove this line at the end of the declaration within the EditText XML tags:
<requestFocus />
That should give something like that :
<EditText
android:id="#+id/emailField"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="textEmailAddress">
//<requestFocus /> /* <-- without this line */
</EditText>
using the information provided by other posters, I used the following solution:
in the layout XML
<!-- Dummy item to prevent AutoCompleteTextView from receiving focus -->
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/linearLayout_focus"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_height="0px"/>
<!-- AUTOCOMPLETE -->
<AutoCompleteTextView
android:id="#+id/autocomplete"
android:layout_width="200dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="20dip"
android:inputType="textNoSuggestions|textVisiblePassword"/>
in onCreate()
private AutoCompleteTextView mAutoCompleteTextView;
private LinearLayout mLinearLayout;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.mylayout);
//get references to UI components
mAutoCompleteTextView = (AutoCompleteTextView) findViewById(R.id.autocomplete);
mLinearLayout = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.linearLayout_focus);
}
and finally, in onResume()
#Override
protected void onResume() {
super.onResume();
//do not give the editbox focus automatically when activity starts
mAutoCompleteTextView.clearFocus();
mLinearLayout.requestFocus();
}
Try clearFocus() instead of setSelected(false). Every view in Android has both focusability and selectability, and I think that you want to just clear the focus.
The following will stop EditText from taking focus when created but grab it when you touch them.
<EditText
android:id="#+id/et_bonus_custom"
android:focusable="false" />
So you set focusable to false in the xml, but the key is in the java, which you add the following listener:
etBonus.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
#Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
v.setFocusable(true);
v.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
return false;
}
});
Because you are returning false, i.e. not consuming the event, the focusing behavior will proceed like normal.
Late but simplest answer, just add this in the parent layout of the XML.
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
Upvote if it helped you! Happy Coding :)
I had tried several answers individually but the focus is still at the EditText. I only managed to solve it by using two of the below solution together.
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/mainLayout"
android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true" >
( Reference from Silver https://stackoverflow.com/a/8639921/15695 )
and remove
<requestFocus />
at EditText
( Reference from floydaddict https://stackoverflow.com/a/9681809 )
None of these solutions worked for me. The way I fix the autofocus was:
<activity android:name=".android.InviteFriendsActivity"
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan">
<intent-filter >
</intent-filter>
</activity>
Simple solution:
In AndroidManifest in Activity tag use
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden"
You can just set "focusable" and "focusable in touch mode" to value true on the first TextView of the layout. In this way when the activity starts the TextView will be focused but, due to its nature, you will see nothing focused on the screen and, of course, there will be no keyboard displayed...
The following worked for me in Manifest. Write,
<activity
android:name=".MyActivity"
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden"/>
I needed to clearly focus on all fields programmatically. I just added the following two statements to my main layout definition.
myLayout.setDescendantFocusability(ViewGroup.FOCUS_BEFORE_DESCENDANTS);
myLayout.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
That's it. Fixed my problem instantly. Thanks, Silver, for pointing me in the right direction.
Add android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden" in the activity tag of the Manifest.xml file.
Source
If you have another view on your activity like a ListView, you can also do:
ListView.requestFocus();
in your onResume() to grab focus from the editText.
I know this question has been answered but just providing an alternative solution that worked for me :)
Try this before your first editable field:
<TextView
android:id="#+id/dummyfocus"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/foo"
/>
findViewById(R.id.dummyfocus).setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
findViewById(R.id.dummyfocus).requestFocus();
Add following in onCreate method:
this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
Write this line in your Parent Layout...
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
Being that I don't like to pollute the XML with something that is related to functionality, I created this method that "transparently" steals the focus from the first focusable view and then makes sure to remove itself when necessary!
public static View preventInitialFocus(final Activity activity)
{
final ViewGroup content = (ViewGroup)activity.findViewById(android.R.id.content);
final View root = content.getChildAt(0);
if (root == null) return null;
final View focusDummy = new View(activity);
final View.OnFocusChangeListener onFocusChangeListener = new View.OnFocusChangeListener()
{
#Override
public void onFocusChange(View view, boolean b)
{
view.setOnFocusChangeListener(null);
content.removeView(focusDummy);
}
};
focusDummy.setFocusable(true);
focusDummy.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
content.addView(focusDummy, 0, new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(0, 0));
if (root instanceof ViewGroup)
{
final ViewGroup _root = (ViewGroup)root;
for (int i = 1, children = _root.getChildCount(); i < children; i++)
{
final View child = _root.getChildAt(i);
if (child.isFocusable() || child.isFocusableInTouchMode())
{
child.setOnFocusChangeListener(onFocusChangeListener);
break;
}
}
}
else if (root.isFocusable() || root.isFocusableInTouchMode())
root.setOnFocusChangeListener(onFocusChangeListener);
return focusDummy;
}
Late, but maybe helpful. Create a dummy EditText at the top of your layout then call myDummyEditText.requestFocus() in onCreate()
<EditText android:id="#+id/dummyEditTextFocus"
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_height="0px" />
That seems to behave as I expect. No need to handle configuration changes, etc. I needed this for an Activity with a lengthy TextView (instructions).
Yeah, I did the same thing - create a 'dummy' linear layout which gets the initial focus. Furthermore, I set the 'next' focus IDs so the user can't focus it anymore after scrolling once:
<LinearLayout 'dummy'>
<EditText et>
dummy.setNextFocusDownId(et.getId());
dummy.setNextFocusUpId(et.getId());
et.setNextFocusUpId(et.getId());
a lot of work just to get rid of focus on a view.
Thanks
For me, what worked on all devices is this:
<!-- fake first focusable view, to allow stealing the focus to itself when clearing the focus from others -->
<View
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_height="0px"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true" />
Just put this as a view before the problematic focused view, and that's it.
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView01"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:singleLine="true"
android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
style="#android:style/Widget.EditText"/>
This is the perfect and easiest solution. I always use this in my app.
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN);
The simplest thing I did is to set focus on another view in onCreate:
myView.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
myView.requestFocus();
This stopped the soft keyboard from coming up and there was no cursor flashing in the EditText.
Write this code inside the Manifest file in the Activity where you do not want to open the keyboard.
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"
Manifest file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.example.project"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >
<uses-sdk
android:minSdkVersion="8"
android:targetSdkVersion="24" />
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme" >
<activity
android:name=".Splash"
android:label="#string/app_name" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<activity
android:name=".Login"
**android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"**
android:label="#string/app_name" >
</activity>
</application>
</manifest>
The easiest way to hide the keyboard is using setSoftInputMode
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
or you can use InputMethodManager and hide the keyboard like this.
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(myEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);
At onCreate of your Activity, just add use clearFocus() on your EditText element.
For example,
edittext = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.edittext);
edittext.clearFocus();
And if you want to divert the focus to another element, use requestFocus() on that.
For example,
button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button);
button.requestFocus();