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 my case none of the answers above worked (they don't work in Nox, for example). To set focus to EditText, you could trick it into thinking that the user actually clicked it.

So I use MotionEvent, like this:

// simulate a click, which consists of ACTION_DOWN and ACTION_UP
MotionEvent eventDown = MotionEvent.obtain(System.currentTimeMillis(), System.currentTimeMillis(), MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN, 0, 0, 0);
editText.dispatchTouchEvent(eventDown);
eventDown.recycle();

MotionEvent eventUp = MotionEvent.obtain(System.currentTimeMillis(), System.currentTimeMillis(), MotionEvent.ACTION_UP, 0, 0, 0);
editText.dispatchTouchEvent(eventUp);
eventUp.recycle();

// To be on the safe side, also use another method
editText.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
editText.requestFocus();
editText.requestFocusFromTouch();