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

As an extension to this answer (I didn't add it as a comment because of reputation...).

If you want to reduce the delayed time to zero, use handler.post() instead. Full code:

final Handler handler = new Handler();
handler.post(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        lastview.getEditText().clearFocus();
        m_SearchEditText.requestFocus();
        InputMethodManager mgr = (InputMethodManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);


        mgr.showSoftInput(mLastNameET, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
    }
});