How to set focus on a view when a layout is created and displayed?

Question

Currently, I have a layout which contains a Button, a TextView and an EditText. When the layout is displayed, the focus will be automa

Answer 1

To set focus, delay the requestFocus() using a Handler.

private Handler mHandler= new Handler();

public class HelloAndroid extends Activity {
   /** Called when the activity is first created. */
   @Override
   public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
     super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
     setContentView(R.layout.main);

     LinearLayout mainVw = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.main_layout);

     LinearLayout.LayoutParams params = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams( 
           LinearLayout.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT,
           LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);

     EditText edit = new EditText(this);
     edit.setLayoutParams(params);
     mainVw.addView(edit);

     TextView titleTv = new TextView(this);
     titleTv.setText("test");
     titleTv.setLayoutParams(params);
     mainVw.addView(titleTv);

     mHandler.post(
       new Runnable() 
       {
          public void run() 
          {
            titleTv.requestFocus();
          } 
       }
     );
   }
}

Answer 2

You can start by adding android:windowSoftInputMode to your activity in AndroidManifest.xml file.

<activity android:name="YourActivity"
          android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden" />

This will make the keyboard to not show, but EditText is still got focus. To solve that, you can set android:focusableInTouchmode and android:focusable to true on your root view.

<LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical"
              android:focusable="true"
              android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
              ...
              >
    <EditText
         ...
       />
    <TextView
         ...
       />
    <Button
         ...
       />
</LinearLayout>

The code above will make sure that RelativeLayout is getting focus instead of EditText

Answer 3

you can add an edit text of size "0 dip" as the first control in ur xml, so, that will get the focus on render.(make sure its focusable and all...)

Answer 4

i think a text view is not focusable. Try to set the focus on a button for example, or to set the property focusable to true.

Answer 5

Set

 android:focusable="true"

in your <EditText/>

Answer 6

This works:

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);