I have an Activity
in Android, with two elements:
EditText ListView
When my Activity
starts, the EditText
immediately has 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).
EditText
from obtaining focus. It actually clearly states that this is how you prevent the software keyboard IME from opening automatically on focus; because it is more likely that the bigger concern is the soft keyboard popping up unexpectedly, not the focus itself. If your issue is with the EditText
actually having focus at all, then use someone else's answer.
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 focus 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
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's 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();
}
android:focusable="true" android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
prevents the EditTexts from gaining focus on some devices, but on some devices it still doesn't work. I've been searching for a solution for a long time and this works perfectly. Thanks so much.
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.
myEditText.clearFocus(); myDummyLinearLayout.requestFocus();
in the onResume
of the Activity. This ensured the EditText didn't keep the focus when the phone was rotated.
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.
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT <= 27) {et.setFocusable(false); et.setOnTouchListener(...);}
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 )
Late but simplest answer, just add this in parent layout of the XML.
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
Upvote if it helped you ! Happy Coding :)
None of this 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 clear focus from 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.
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);
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;
}
Write this line in your Parent Layout...
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
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 initial focus. Furthermore, I set the 'next' focus IDs so the user can't focus it any more 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"/>
The simplest thing I did is to set focus on another view in onCreate:
myView.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
myView.requestFocus();
This stopped the soft keyboard coming up and there was no cursor flashing in the EditText.
This is the perfect and most easiest solution.I always use this in my app.
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN);
Write this code inside 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.projectt"
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>
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();
Easiest way to hide keyboard is using setSoftInputMode
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
or you can use InputMethodManager and hide keyboard like this.
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(myEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);
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android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
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