Edit Text in ListActivity ListView loses focus when keyboard comes up

Question

I have searched and searched for an answer to this question and everything that looked like an answer has not worked so I guess I will just ask.

I have a couple of <

Answer 1

For me a combination of the following helped me (especially number 3):

1) Add the following to the related Activity in the manifest file, this is required for your ListView to be resized to fill only the area above the softKeyboard:

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"

2) With the below the ListView will ONLY get focus only if none of its descendants want it. The descendants (the EditText) needs to get and keep focus.

<ListView
...
android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants"/>

3) The automatic showing/hiding of the Spelling Suggestions bar right above the keyboard keeps triggering the ListView to refresh. I turned the Suggestions off for any EditText in my ListView.

<EditText
...
android:inputType="textNoSuggestions|textVisiblePassword" />

Answer 2

recycler view works best and no need to mess around with any other properties anywhere.

Answer 3

I have experienced exactly the same issue in my project.

To resolve the issue I have subclassed the EditText and handled the "Back" button press - to make sure that my EditTextclears focus at that moment.

Check this solution, on how to do it.

Good luck.

Answer 4

mViewHolder.editText = (EditText)convertView.findViewById(R.id.editText1);
            mViewHolder.editText.setTag(position);
            mViewHolder.editText.setTextColor(0xFF000000);
            mViewHolder.editText.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
                public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
                    if (!hasFocus) {
                        EditText et =(EditText)v.findViewById(R.id.editText1);
                        editTextArrayList.set(position,et.getText().toString().trim());
                    }
                }
            });

Hi below link may help for you http://mylearnandroid.blogspot.in/2014/06/listview-problem-while-scrolling.html

Answer 5

All you really need to do is apply this to your ListView:

XML:

android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants"

Java:

listView.setDescendantFocusability(ViewGroup.FOCUS_AFTER_DESCENDANTS);

Answer 6

In my case it perfect worked with adding this like of code to manifest:

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"