Set Focus on EditText

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I have an EditText-Field and set an OnFocusChangeListener for it  When it has lost focus  a method is called  which checks the value of the EditText with one in the database  If the return-value of the method is true  a toast is shown and the focus should get back on the EditText again  The focus should always get back on the EditText and the keyboard should show  until the return-value of the method is false   EDIT  I think  I haven t made my real problem perfectly clear yet  No other Item on the Screen should be able to edit  until the value of the EditText is edited to a value  which makes the method  checkLiganame liganame   return false  Only the EditText-Field should be editable   here is my code  which doesn t work for me    final EditText Liganame    EditText  findViewById R id liganame        Liganame setOnFocusChangeListener new OnFocusChangeListener               Override         public void onFocusChange View v  boolean hasFocus                if   hasFocus                     String liganame   Liganame getText   toString                      if  checkLiganame liganame                         Toast toast   Toast makeText CreateTableActivity this                               Dieser Liganame ist bereits vergeben                               Toast LENGTH SHORT                       toast show                        Liganame requestFocus                                      and the method   public boolean checkLiganame String liganame        boolean found   false       DatabaseHelper databaseHelper   new DatabaseHelper this       SQLiteDatabase db   databaseHelper getReadableDatabase         Cursor cursor   db query  liga   new String      liganame                  liganame        liganame        null  null  null  null       Log i  Liganame     String valueOf cursor         db close        if  cursor    null            found   true             return found      This code leads to the following result  After the EditText has lost focus  the focus jumps back to EditText  but I can t edit the text anymore   EDIT2  Changed my code  Scenario   I click on the first EditText and put a String in it  which is already in the database  The toast is showing  Now I can t edit my String anymore  I click  next  on the keyboard and the focus stays on the first EditText  I try to edit my String  but nothing happens  Instead my new String is showing in the second EditText  I click on the back-arrow of my device and reclick on the first and second EditText --  no keyboard is showing   Here is my new Code   public class CreateTableActivity extends Activity implements     OnFocusChangeListener    private EditText Liganame  Mannschaftsanzahl    Override protected void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState        super onCreate savedInstanceState       setContentView R layout create league        Liganame    EditText  findViewById R id liganame       Liganame setOnFocusChangeListener this       Mannschaftsanzahl    EditText  findViewById R id mannschaftsanzahl       Mannschaftsanzahl setOnFocusChangeListener this        final Button save button    Button  findViewById R id create tabelle speichern button        OnClickListener mCorkyListener   new OnClickListener             public void onClick View v                ButtonClick                         save button setOnClickListener mCorkyListener          Override public void onFocusChange View v  boolean hasFocus        String liganame   Liganame getText   toString         if  checkLiganame liganame             if  Liganame requestFocus                  getWindow                        setSoftInputMode                              WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS VISIBLE               Mannschaftsanzahl clearFocus                Toast makeText CreateTableActivity this                       Dieser Liganame ist bereits vergeben                       Toast LENGTH SHORT  show

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mEditText setFocusableInTouchMode true       mEditText requestFocus         if mEditText requestFocus              getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS VISIBLE

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You could do this with a single line   yourEditText RequestFocusFromTouch

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This is what worked for me  sets focus and shows keyboard also  EditText userNameText    EditText  findViewById R id textViewUserNameText   userNameText setFocusable true   userNameText setFocusableInTouchMode true   userNameText requestFocus    InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE   imm showSoftInput userNameText  InputMethodManager SHOW IMPLICIT

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new OnEditorActionListener        Override    public boolean onEditorAction TextView v  int actionId  KeyEvent event          editText requestFocus            used         return true              return   true

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This works from me   public void showKeyboard final EditText ettext       ettext requestFocus        ettext postDelayed new Runnable                 Override public void run                    InputMethodManager keyboard  InputMethodManager getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE                   keyboard showSoftInput ettext 0                                    200       To hide   private void hideSoftKeyboard EditText ettext       InputMethodManager inputMethodManager    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE       inputMethodManager hideSoftInputFromWindow ettext getWindowToken    0

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private void requestFocus View view            if  view requestFocus                  getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS VISIBLE                      Function Call requestFocus yourEditetxt

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This changes the focus of the EditText when the button is clicked   public class MainActivity extends Activity       private EditText e1 e2      private Button b1 b2        Override     protected void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState            super onCreate savedInstanceState           setContentView R layout activity main           e1  EditText  findViewById R id editText1           e2  EditText  findViewById R id editText2           e1 requestFocus            b1  Button  findViewById R id one           b2  Button  findViewById R id two           b1 setOnClickListener new OnClickListener                  Override             public void onClick View v                    e1 requestFocus                                       b2 setOnClickListener new OnClickListener                  Override             public void onClick View v                    e2 requestFocus

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If you try to call requestFocus   before layout is inflated  it will return false  This code runs after layout get inflated  You don t need 200 ms delay as mentioned above    editText post Runnable      if editText requestFocus             val imm   editText context getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE  as InputMethodManager         imm  toggleSoftInput InputMethodManager SHOW IMPLICIT  0

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Darwind code didn t show the keyboard   This works for me            searchText requestFocus            InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE           imm showSoftInput  searchText  InputMethodManager SHOW IMPLICIT     in case the keyboard is not showing  try to force           imm showSoftInput  searchText  InputMethodManager SHOW FORCED

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For Xamarin Android I have created this extension   public static class ViewExtensions       public static void FocusEditText this EditText editText  Activity activity                if  editText RequestFocus                          InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager activity GetSystemService Context InputMethodService               imm ShowSoftInput editText  ShowFlags Implicit

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please try this code on manifest   lt activity android name   EditTextActivity  android windowSoftInputMode  stateAlwaysVisible  gt   lt  activity gt

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Requesting focus isn t enough to show the keyboard   To get focus and show the keyboard you would write something like this   if myEditText requestFocus          getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS VISIBLE       EDIT  Adding extra info to the answer after the checkLiganame method was added   In the checkLiganame method you check if the cursor is null  The cursor will always return an object  so the check for null doesn t do anything  However the problem is in the line db close     When you close the database connection  the Cursor becomes invalid and most probably is nulled   So close the database after you ve fetched the value   Instead of checking the cursor for null  you should check if the number of rows returned are more than 0  if cursor getCount     0  and then set your boolean to true if so   EDIT2  So here s some code for how to make it work  EDIT3  Sorry wrong code I added     S  First off  you need to clear focus if another EditText gets focus  This can be done with myEditText clearFocus    Then in your onFocusChangeListener you shouldn t really care if first EditText has focus or not  so the onFocusChangeListener could look something like this   public class MainActivity extends Activity implements OnFocusChangeListener       private EditText editText1  editText2        Override     protected void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState            super onCreate savedInstanceState           setContentView R layout activity main            editText1    EditText  findViewById R id editText1           editText1 setOnFocusChangeListener this           editText2    EditText  findViewById R id editText2           editText2 setOnFocusChangeListener this               Override     public void onFocusChange View v  boolean hasFocus            String liganame   editText1 getText   toString             if liganame length      0                if editText1 requestFocus                      getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS VISIBLE                   editText2 clearFocus                    Toast makeText MainActivity this   Dieser Liganame ist bereits vergeben   Toast LENGTH SHORT  show                                      Replace the first check if liganame length      0  with your own check  then it should work   Take note  that all the EditText views should have set their onFocusChangeListener to the same listener like I ve done in the example

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If using requestFocus   in onCreate   introduces the issue of keyboard not showing on tap  use BindingAdapter using a SingleLiveEvent and request the focus inside that   Here s how to do it   BindingAdapter   BindingAdapter  requestFocus   fun bindRequestFocus editText  EditText  event  Event lt Boolean gt          event  getContentIfNotHandled    let           if  it  editText requestFocus

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My answer here  As I read on the official document  I think this is the best answer  just pass the View to parameter such as your EditText  but showSoftKeyboard seems like not working on landscape   private fun showSoftKeyboard view  View        if  view requestFocus              val imm   getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE  as InputMethodManager         imm showSoftInput view  InputMethodManager SHOW IMPLICIT           private fun closeSoftKeyboard view  View        if  view requestFocus              val imm   getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE  as InputMethodManager         imm hideSoftInputFromWindow view windowToken  InputMethodManager HIDE NOT ALWAYS

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I Dont know if you alredy found a solution  but for your editing problem after requesting focus again   Have you tried to the call the method selectAll   or setSelection 0   if is emtpy  on your edittext1    Please let me know if this helps  so i will edit my answer to a complete solution

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If we create an EditText dynamically then we have to set the requestFocus   as given below       EditText editText   new EditText this       editText setWidth 600       editText requestFocus      If already we declared the component in the xml view then we have to find it and we can the focus as given below   EditText e1  EditText  findViewById R id editText1   e1 requestFocus      It sets only focus to the corresponding EditText component

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Button btnClear    Button  findViewById R id btnClear        EditText editText1  EditText  findViewById R id editText2       EditText editText2  EditText  findViewById R id editText3        btnClear setOnClickListener new View OnClickListener               Override          public void onClick View v                 editText1 setText                  editText2 setText                   editText1 requestFocus

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Just put this line on your onCreate   editText requestFocus

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