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

In your manifest.xml write:

And call m_SearchEditText.requestfocus() in oncreate().
OR,
Try:

if(m_SearchEditText.requestFocus()) {
    getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
}