When the soft keyboard appears, it makes my EditText field lose focus

Question

I\'ve got a few EditText fields in a ListView. When I tap on one of the EditText fields, the keyboard slides into view (as it should), but the EditText field I tapped loses

Answer 1

Here is how I did it. The onFocusChangeListener() is called several times when you touch a EditText to type text into it. The sequence is:

1. If focus was on a different view, then that view loses focus
2. The target gains focus
3. Soft keyboard pops up.
4. This causes the target to lose focus
5. The code detects this situation and calls target.requestFocus()
6. The leftmost, topmost view gains focus, due to Android nonsense
7. The leftmost view loses focus, due to requestFocus being called

8. Target finally gains focus

   //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   private final int minDelta = 300;           // threshold in ms
   private long focusTime = 0;                 // time of last touch
   private View focusTarget = null;
   
   View.OnFocusChangeListener onFocusChangeListener = new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
       @Override
       public void onFocusChange(View view, boolean hasFocus) {
           long t = System.currentTimeMillis();
           long delta = t - focusTime;
           if (hasFocus) {     // gained focus
               if (delta > minDelta) {
                   focusTime = t;
                   focusTarget = view;
               }
           }
           else {              // lost focus
               if (delta <= minDelta  &&  view == focusTarget) {
                   focusTarget.post(new Runnable() {   // reset focus to target
                       public void run() {
                           focusTarget.requestFocus();
                       }
                   });
               }
           }
       }
   };
   

The code above works well for the keyboard pop-ups. However, it does not detect the speech-to-text pop-up.