Stop ScrollView from auto-scrolling to an EditText

Question

Seems to be a common problem without a great solution that I have found. Goal is to stop a ScrollView from auto-scrolling to an EditText (or any vi

Answer 1

Another version of thomas88wp's code:

ScrollView scroll = (ScrollView)getActivity().findViewById(R.id.scrollView_addNewBill);
    scroll.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View arg0, MotionEvent arg1) {        
            View focussedView = getCurrentFocus(); 
            if( focussedView != null ) focussedView.clearFocus();
                
            return false;
    }
});

Answer 2

We can write a custom ScrollView and override the onScrollChanged method and clear the focus from the focused view and optionally hide the keyboard.

@Override
protected void onScrollChanged(int l, int t, int oldl, int oldt) {
    View v = getFocusedChild();
    if (v != null) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getContext()
                .getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), 0);
        v.clearFocus();
    }
    super.onScrollChanged(l, t, oldl, oldt);
}

Answer 3

I made a test project to experiment with the various solutions if anyone wants to play with it. https://github.com/marchold/EditText-ErrorPopup-Scroll-View