EditText request focus not working

Question

I have an EditText and a Button. On click of the button i want to open the EditText keyboard and at the same time request focus on the

Answer 1

ensure that the edittext is focusable in touch mode. You can do it two way.

In xml:

android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

in Java:

view.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);

Personally I don't trust the XML definition of this param. I always request focus by these two lines of code:

view.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
view.requestFocus();

The keyboard shoul appear on itself without the need to call InputMethodManager.

It works in most of the cases. Once it did not work for me because I have lost the reference to the object due to quite heavy processing - ensure that this is not your issue.