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

Following saleh sereshki's answer and pauminku's comment, I'm using:

m_SearchEditText.post(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                m_SearchEditText.requestFocus();
            }
        });

which in Kotlin is the equivalent to:

m_SearchEditText.post { m_SearchEditText.requestFocus() }