How to set cursor position in EditText?

Question

There are two EditText,while loading the page a text is set in the first EditText, So now cursor will be in the starting place of EditText, I want

Answer 1

Where position is an int:

editText1.setSelection(position)

Answer 2

I won't get setSelection() method directly , so i done like below and work like charm

EditText editText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.edittext_id);
editText.setText("Updated New Text");
int position = editText.getText().length();
Editable editObj= editText.getText();
Selection.setSelection(editObj, position);

Answer 3

Let editText2 is your second EditText view .then put following piece of code in onResume()

editText2.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
editText2.requestFocus();

or put

<requestFocus />

in your xml layout of the second EditText view.

Answer 4

Remember call requestFocus() before setSelection for edittext.

Answer 5

In kotlin, you could create an extension function like this:

fun EditText.placeCursorAtLast() {
    val string = this.text.toString()
    this.setSelection(string.length)
}

and then simply call myEditText.placeCursorAtLast()