Place cursor at the end of text in EditText

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I am changing the value of an EditText on keyListener   But when I change the text the cursor is moving to the beginning of the EditText  I need the cursor to be at the end of the text   How to move the cursor to the end of the text in a EditText

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Set cursor to end of text in edittext when user clicks Next on Keyboard      View OnFocusChangeListener onFocusChangeListener   new View OnFocusChangeListener          Override     public void onFocusChange View view  boolean b            if  b                  EditText  view  setSelection   EditText  view  getText   length                         mEditFirstName setOnFocusChangeListener onFocusChangeListener    mEditLastName setOnFocusChangeListener onFocusChangeListener     It work good for me

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This is another possible solution    et append        Just try this solution if it doesn t work for any reason   et setSelection et getText   length

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This works  Editable etext   edittext getText    Selection setSelection etext edittext getText   toString   length

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In my case I created the following kotlin ext  function  may be useful to someone   private fun EditText focus            requestFocus           setSelection length            Then use as follows  mEditText focus

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etSSID setSelection etSSID getText   length

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public class CustomEditText extends EditText       public CustomEditText Context context  AttributeSet attrs            super context  attrs              public CustomEditText Context context            super context              public CustomEditText Context context  AttributeSet attrs  int defStyle            super context  attrs  defStyle                Override     protected void onFocusChanged boolean focused  int direction  Rect previouslyFocusedRect            super onFocusChanged focused  direction  previouslyFocusedRect           this setSelection this getText   length                 Override     protected void onSelectionChanged int selStart  int selEnd               User this CustomEditText in your XML file  this will work  I have tested this and it is working for me

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i think this can achieve what you want    Editable etext   mSubjectTextEditor getText     Selection setSelection etext  etext length

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Hello Try This      lt EditText        android id    id edt text         android layout width  match parent         android layout height  wrap content         android text  Hello World          android cursorVisible  true   gt    EditText editText   findViewById R id editText       editText setSelection editText getText   length        End pointCursor

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This does the trick safely               editText setText          if   TextUtils isEmpty text             editText append text

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For ViewModel  LiveData and Data binding  I needed this functionality for EditText with multiline support in my notes app  I wanted the cursor at the end of the text when the user navigates to the fragment that has note text   The solution suggested by the djleop comes close  But the problem with this is that  if the user puts the cursor somewhere in the middle of the text for editing and starts typing  the cursor would jump to the end of text again  This happened because the LiveData would emit the new value and cursor would jump to the end of the text again resulting in user not able to edit the text somewhere in the middle   To solve this  I use MediatorLiveData and assign it the length of String only once using a flag  This will cause the LiveData to read the value only once  that is  when the user navigates to the fragment  After that the user can place the cursor anywhere they want to edit the text there   ViewModel  private var accessedPosition  Boolean   false  val cursorPosition   MediatorLiveData lt Event lt Int gt  gt    apply       addSource yourObject    value - gt          if  accessedPosition                setValue Event yourObject note length               accessedPosition   true                     Here  yourObject is another LiveData retrieved from the database that holds the String text that you are displaying in the EditText   Then bind this MediatorLiveData to your EditText using binding adapter   XML  Uses two-way data binding for displaying text as well as accepting the text input    lt  -- android text must be placed before cursorPosition otherwise we ll get IndexOutOfBounds exception-- gt   lt EditText     android text     viewModel noteText       cursorPosition    viewModel cursorPosition     gt    Binding Adapter   BindingAdapter  cursorPosition   fun bindCursorPosition editText  EditText  event  Event lt Int gt          event  getContentIfNotHandled    let   editText setSelection it        Event class  The Event class here is like a SingleLiveEvent written by Jose Alc  rreca from Google  I use it here to take care of screen rotation  Using the single Event will make sure that the cursor won t jump to the end of text when the user is editing the text somewhere in the middle and the screen rotates  It will maintain the same position when the screen rotates   Here s the Event class   open class Event lt out T gt  private val content  T         var hasBeenHandled   false         private set    Allow external read but not write                 Returns the content and prevents its use again              fun getContentIfNotHandled    T            return if  hasBeenHandled                null           else               hasBeenHandled   true             content                                 Returns the content  even if it s already been handled              fun peekContent    T   content     This is the solution that works for me and provides good user experience  Hope it helps in your projects too

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Kotlin   set the cursor to the starting position   val editText   findViewById R id edittext id  as EditText editText setSelection 0    set the cursor to the end of the EditText   val editText   findViewById R id edittext id  as EditText editText setSelection editText text length    Below Code is to place the cursor after the second character   val editText   findViewById R id edittext id  as EditText editText setSelection 2    JAVA   set the cursor to the starting position    EditText editText    EditText findViewById R id edittext id    editText setSelection 0     set the cursor to the end of the EditText   EditText editText    EditText findViewById R id edittext id   editText setSelection editText getText   length       Below Code is to place the cursor after the second character   EditText editText    EditText findViewById R id edittext id   editText setSelection 2

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You could also place the cursor at the end of the text in the EditText view like this   EditText et    EditText findViewById R id textview   int textLength   et getText   length    et setSelection textLength  textLength

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All the other codes I ve tested didn t work good due to the fact that the user could still place the caret cursor wherever in the middle of the string  ex   12 3 00 - where   is the cursor   My solution always puts the cursor in the end of the string whenever the touch occurs on the EditText   The ultimate solution is      For a EditText like   lt EditText                 android id    id EditTextAmount                  android layout height  wrap content                  android layout width  fill parent                  android hint   string amount                  android layout weight  1                  android text   string zero value                  android inputType  text numberDecimal                  android maxLength  13   gt     string amount  0 00   string zero value  0 00      Create a Static boolean flag private static boolean returnNext        Set caret cursor to the end on focus change EditTextAmount setOnFocusChangeListener new View OnFocusChangeListener                  Override             public void onFocusChange View editText  boolean hasFocus                    if hasFocus                         EditText  editText  setSelection   EditText  editText  getText   length                                                     Create a touch listener and put caret to the end  no matter where the user touched in the middle of the string  EditTextAmount setOnTouchListener new View OnTouchListener                  Override             public boolean onTouch View editText  MotionEvent event                      EditText  editText  onTouchEvent event                     EditText  editText  setSelection   EditText  editText  getText   length                     return true                                 Implement a Currency Mask with addTextChangedListener EditTextAmount addTextChangedListener new TextWatcher                  Override             public void onTextChanged CharSequence s  int start  int before  int count                    String input   s toString                    String output   new String                    String buffer   new String                    String decimals   new String                    String numbers   Integer toString Integer parseInt input replaceAll    0-9                            if returnNext                       returnNext   false                      return                                     returnNext   true                   if  numbers equals  0                         output     0 00                                     else if  numbers length    lt   2                       output     0     String format   02d   Integer parseInt numbers                                      else if numbers length    gt   3                       decimals   numbers substring numbers length   - 2                       int commaCounter   0                      for int i numbers length  -3  i gt  0  i--                           if commaCounter    3                               buffer                                     commaCounter   0                                                    buffer    numbers charAt i                           commaCounter                                              output   new StringBuilder buffer  reverse   toString           decimals                                    EditTextAmount setText output                   EditTextAmount setSelection EditTextAmount getText   length                                 Override             public void beforeTextChanged CharSequence s  int start  int count  int after                      String input   s toString                    if input equals  0 0                         EditTextAmount setText  0 00                        EditTextAmount setSelection EditTextAmount getText   length                         return                                                  Override             public void afterTextChanged Editable s                                 Hope it helps

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If you want to Place cursor at the end of text in EditText view   EditText rename   String title    title goes here    int counts    int  title length     rename setSelection counts    rename setText title

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You should be able to achieve that with the help of EditText s method setSelection    see here

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editText setOnKeyListener new View OnKeyListener          Override     public boolean onKey View v  int keyCode  KeyEvent event            editText setSelection editText getText   length             return false

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Try this   EditText et    EditText findViewById R id inbox   et setSelection et getText   length

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There is a function called append for ediitext which appends the string value to current edittext value and places the cursor at the end of the value  You can have the string value as the current ediitext value itself and call append     myedittext append  current this edittext string

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If your EditText is not clear   editText setText      editText append  New text      or   editText setText null   editText append  New text

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The question is old and answered  but I think it may be useful to have this answer if you want to use the newly released DataBinding tools for Android  just set this in your XML      lt data gt       lt variable name  stringValue  type  String   gt   lt  data gt       lt EditText                     android text     stringValue           android selection    stringValue length                   gt

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editText setSelection is the magic here  Basically selection gives you place cursor at any position you want   EditText editText   findViewById R id editText   editText setSelection editText getText   length       This places cursor to end of EditText  Basically editText getText   length   gives you text length  Then you use setSelection with length   editText setSelection 0     It is for setting cursor at start position  0

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If you called setText before and the new text didn t get layout phase call setSelection in a separate runnable fired by View post Runnable   repost from this topic    So  for me this code works   editText setText  text    editText post new Runnable               Override          public void run                  editText setSelection editText getText   length                      Edit 05 16 2019  Right now I m using Kotlin extension for that   fun EditText placeCursorToEnd         this setSelection this text length      and then - editText placeCursorToEnd

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If you want to select all text and just entering new text instead of old one  you can use      android selectAllOnFocus  true

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similar to  Anh Duy s answer  but it didnt work for me  i also needed the cursor to move to the end only when the user taps the edit text and still be able to select the position of the cursor afterwards  this is the only code that has worked for me  boolean textFocus   false    define somewhere globally in the class    in onFinishInflate   or somewhere editText setOnTouchListener new OnTouchListener          Override     public boolean onTouch View v  MotionEvent event             editText onTouchEvent event            if  textFocus                editText setSelection editText getText   length                 textFocus   true                     return true             editText setOnFocusChangeListener new OnFocusChangeListener          Override     public void onFocusChange View v  boolean hasFocus            textFocus   false

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The above answers didnt worked for me  So i found out a new solution  This maybe helpful to someone  I have been using the latest version of Android Studio i e 3 5 as per the present date  Maybe that might be the reason y the above answers didnt showed any effect   CODE   EditText available seats   findViewById R id available seats   Selection setSelection available seats getText   available seats getText   length       Here  the 1st argument is the Spannable text value that you want to playwith whereas the 2nd argument is the index value  Since  we want the cursor at the end of the text  we took getText   length   which returns the length of the text

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