How to set cursor position in EditText?

Question

There are two EditText,while loading the page a text is set in the first EditText, So now cursor will be in the starting place of EditText, I want

Answer 1

Set cursor to a row and column

You can use the following code to get the position in your EditText that corresponds to a certain row and column. You can then use editText.setSelection(getIndexFromPos(row, column)) to set the cursor position. The following calls to the method can be made:

• getIndexFromPos(x, y) Go to the column y of line x
• getIndexFromPos(x, -1) Go to the last column of line x
• getIndexFromPos(-1, y) Go to the column y of last line
• getIndexFromPos(-1, -1) Go to the last column of the last line

All line and column bounds are handled; Entering a column greater than the line's length will return position at the last column of the line. Entering a line greater than the EditText's line count will go to the last line. It should be reliable enough as it was heavily tested.

static final String LINE_SEPARATOR = System.getProperty("line.separator");

int getIndexFromPos(int line, int column) {
    int lineCount = getTrueLineCount();
    if (line < 0) line = getLayout().getLineForOffset(getSelectionStart());  // No line, take current line
    if (line >= lineCount) line = lineCount - 1;  // Line out of bounds, take last line

    String content = getText().toString() + LINE_SEPARATOR;
    int currentLine = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < content.length(); i++) {
        if (currentLine == line) {
            int lineLength = content.substring(i, content.length()).indexOf(LINE_SEPARATOR);
            if (column < 0 || column > lineLength) return i + lineLength;  // No column or column out of bounds, take last column
            else return i + column;
        }
        if (String.valueOf(content.charAt(i)).equals(LINE_SEPARATOR)) currentLine++;
    }
    return -1;  // Should not happen
}

// Fast alternative to StringUtils.countMatches(getText().toString(), LINE_SEPARATOR) + 1
public int getTrueLineCount() {
    int count;
    String text = getText().toString();
    StringReader sr = new StringReader(text);
    LineNumberReader lnr = new LineNumberReader(sr);
    try {
        lnr.skip(Long.MAX_VALUE);
        count = lnr.getLineNumber() + 1;
    } catch (IOException e) {
        count = 0;  // Should not happen
    }
    sr.close();
    return count;
}

The question was already answered but I thought someone could want to do that instead.

It works by looping through each character, incrementing the line count every time it finds a line separator. When the line count equals the desired line, it returns the current index + the column, or the line end index if column is out of bounds. You can also reuse the getTrueLineCount() method, it returns a line count ignoring text wrapping, unlike TextView.getLineCount().