How to set cursor position in EditText

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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 to set cursor position in the second EditText which contains no data  How to do this

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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.

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I m so late to answer this problem  so I figure it out  Just use  android gravity  quot center horizontal quot

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If you want to place the cursor in a certain position on an EditText  you can use   yourEditText setSelection position     Additionally  there is the possibility to set the initial and final position  so that you programmatically select some text  this way   yourEditText setSelection startPosition  endPosition     Please note that setting the selection might be tricky since you can place the cursor before or after a character  the image below explains how to index works in this case     So  if you want the cursor at the end of the text  just set it to yourEditText length

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How to resolve the cursor position issue which is automatically moving to the last position after formatting in US Mobile like  xxx  xxx-xxxx in Android   private String oldText       private int lastCursor  private EditText mEtPhone    Override     public void afterTextChanged Editable s    String cleanString   AppUtil cleanPhone s toString      String format   cleanString length    lt  11   cleanString replaceFirst     d 3     d 3     d        1   2- 3                     cleanString substring 0  10  replaceFirst     d 3     d 3     d        1   2- 3      boolean isDeleted   format length    lt  oldText length             try                int cur   AppUtil getPointer lastCursor  isDeleted   s toString     format  oldText  isDeleted               mEtPhone setSelection cur  gt  0   cur   format length               catch  Exception e               e printStackTrace                mEtPhone setSelection format length                        mEtPhone addTextChangedListener this                Override     public void beforeTextChanged CharSequence s  int start  int count  int after             oldText   s toString            lastCursor   start          Define the below method to any Activityclass in my case Activity name is AppUtil and access it globally  public static int getPointer int index  String newString  String oldText  boolean isDeleted            int diff   Math abs newString length   - oldText length              return diff  gt  1   isDeleted   index - diff   index    diff   isDeleted   index   index   1         public static String cleanPhone String phone            if TextUtils isEmpty phone               return              StringBuilder sb   new StringBuilder            for char c   phone toCharArray                 if Character isDigit c                   sb append c                     return sb toString            And if you want to set any specific position  edittext setSelection position

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I believe the most simple way to do this is just use padding   Say in your xml s edittext section  add      android paddingLeft  100dp  This will move your start position of cursor 100dp right from left end   Same way  you can use     android paddingRight  100dp  This will move your end position of cursor 100dp left from right end   For more detail  check this article on my blog  Android  Setting Cursor Starting and Ending Position in EditText Widget

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Set cursor to a row and column  You can use the following code to get the position in your EditText that corresponds to a certain row and column  You can then use editText setSelection getIndexFromPos row  column   to set the cursor position  The following calls to the method can be made    getIndexFromPos x  y  Go to the column y of line x getIndexFromPos x  -1  Go to the last column of line x getIndexFromPos -1  y  Go to the column y of last line getIndexFromPos -1  -1  Go to the last column of the last line   All line and column bounds are handled  Entering a column greater than the line s length will return position at the last column of the line  Entering a line greater than the EditText s line count will go to the last line  It should be reliable enough as it was heavily tested   static final String LINE SEPARATOR   System getProperty  line separator     int getIndexFromPos int line  int column        int lineCount   getTrueLineCount        if  line  lt  0  line   getLayout   getLineForOffset getSelectionStart         No line  take current line     if  line  gt   lineCount  line   lineCount - 1      Line out of bounds  take last line      String content   getText   toString     LINE SEPARATOR      int currentLine   0      for  int i   0  i  lt  content length    i              if  currentLine    line                int lineLength   content substring i  content length    indexOf LINE SEPARATOR               if  column  lt  0    column  gt  lineLength  return i   lineLength      No column or column out of bounds  take last column             else return i   column                    if  String valueOf content charAt i   equals LINE SEPARATOR   currentLine              return -1      Should not happen       Fast alternative to StringUtils countMatches getText   toString    LINE SEPARATOR    1 public int getTrueLineCount         int count      String text   getText   toString        StringReader sr   new StringReader text       LineNumberReader lnr   new LineNumberReader sr       try           lnr skip Long MAX VALUE           count   lnr getLineNumber     1        catch  IOException e            count   0      Should not happen           sr close        return count      The question was already answered but I thought someone could want to do that instead   It works by looping through each character  incrementing the line count every time it finds a line separator  When the line count equals the desired line  it returns the current index   the column  or the line end index if column is out of bounds  You can also reuse the getTrueLineCount   method  it returns a line count ignoring text wrapping  unlike TextView getLineCount

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If you want to set the cursor after n character from right to left then you have to do like this   edittext setSelection edittext length  -n     If edittext s text like  version lt sub gt  lt  sub gt    and you want to move cursor at 6th position from right  Then it will move the cursor at-      version lt sub gt   lt  sub gt

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This code will help you to show your cursor at the last position of editing text    editText requestFocus     editText setSelection editText length

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if myEditText isSelected       myEditText setSelection myEditText length

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some time edit text cursor donot comes at particular position is if we directly use editText setSelection position     In that case you can try   editText post new Runnable                      Override                 public void run                         editText setSelection string length

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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

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setSelection int index  method in Edittext should allow you to do this

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How to Set EditText Cursor position in Android  Below Code is Set cursor to Starting in EditText    EditText editText    EditText findViewById R id edittext id    editText setSelection 0     Below Code is Set cursor to end of the EditText   EditText editText    EditText findViewById R id edittext id   editText setSelection editText getText   length       Below Code is Set cursor after some 2th Character position     EditText editText    EditText findViewById R id edittext id    editText setSelection 2

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use the below line  e2 setSelection e2 length       e2 is edit text Object Name

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Where position is an int   editText1 setSelection position

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EditText editText   findViewById R id editText   editText setSelection editText getText   length

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I have done this way to set cursor position to end of the text after updating the text of EditText programmatically here  etmsg is EditText  etmsg setText  Updated Text From another Activity    int position   etmsg length    Editable etext   etmsg getText    Selection setSelection etext  position

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Remember call requestFocus   before setSelection for edittext

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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

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You can use like this  if  your edittext getText   length    gt  0          your edittext setSelection your edittext getText   length        Can you add this line to your EditText xml android gravity  quot right quot  android ellipsize  quot end quot  android paddingLeft  quot 10dp quot   you set this as you need  But when any Text writing you should set the paddingleft to zero you should use this on addTextChangedListener

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If you want to set cursor position in EditText  try these below code  EditText rename   String title    title goes here    int counts    int  title length     rename setSelection counts    rename setText title

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as a reminder  if you are using edittext setSelection   to set the cursor  and it is NOT working while setting up an alertdialog for example  make sure to set the selection   AFTER the dialog has been created  example   AlertDialog dialog   builder show    input setSelection x y

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I want to set cursor position in edittext which contains no data   There is only one position in an empty EditText  it s setSelection 0    Or did you mean you want to get focus to your EditText when your activity opens  In that case its  requestFocus

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