How to remove focus without setting focus to another control

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I like my UIs to be intuitive  each screen should naturally and unobtrusively guide the user on to the next step in the app  Barring that  I strive to make things as confusing and confounding as possible   Just kidding   -   I ve got three TableRows  each containing a read-only and non-focusable EditText control and then a button to its right  Each button starts the same activity but with a different argument  The user makes a selection there and the sub-activity finishes  populating the appropriate EditText with the user s selection   It s the classic cascading values mechanism  each selection narrows the available options for the next selection  etc  Thus I m disabling both controls on each of the next rows until the EditText on the current row contains a value   I need to do one of two things  in this order of preference    When a button is clicked  immediately remove focus without setting focus to a different button Set focus to the first button when the activity starts   The problem manifests after the sub-activity returns  the button that was clicked retains focus   Re   1 above - There doesn t appear to be a removeFocus   method  or something similar  Re   2 above - I can use requestFocus   to set focus to the button on the next row  and that works after the sub-activity returns  but for some reason it doesn t work in the parent activity s onCreate     I need UI consistency in either direction--either no buttons have focus after the sub-activity finishes or each button receives focus depending on its place in the logic flow  including the very first  and only  active button prior to any selection

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Using clearFocus   didn t seem to be working for me either as you found  saw in comments to another answer   but what worked for me in the end was adding     lt LinearLayout      android id    id my layout       android focusable  true       android focusableInTouchMode  true      gt    to my very top level Layout View  a linear layout   To remove focus from all Buttons EditTexts etc  you can then just do  LinearLayout myLayout    LinearLayout  activity findViewById R id my layout   myLayout requestFocus      Requesting focus did nothing unless I set the view to be focusable

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First of all  it will 100  work           Create onResume   method  Inside this onResume   find the view which is focusing again and again by findViewById    Inside this onResume   set requestFocus   to this view  Inside this onResume   set clearFocus to this view  Go in xml of same layout and find that top view which you want to be focused and set focusable true and focusableInTuch true  Inside this onResume   find the above top view by findViewById  Inside this onResume   set requestFocus   to this view at the last  And now enjoy

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You could try turning off the main Activity s ability to save its state  thus making it forget what control had text and what had focus    You will need to have some other way of remembering what your EditText s have and repopulating them onResume     Launch your sub-Activities with startActivityForResult   and create an onActivityResult   handler in your main Activity that will update the EditText s correctly   This way you can set the proper button you want focused onResume   at the same time you repopulate the EditText s by using a myButton post new Runnable    run     myButton requestFocus           The View post   method is useful for setting focus initially because that runnable will be executed after the window is created and things settle down  allowing the focus mechanism to function properly by that time   Trying to set focus during onCreate Start Resume   usually has issues  I ve found   Please note this is pseudo-code and non-tested  but it s a possible direction you could try

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I tried to disable and enable focusability for view and it worked for me  focus was reset    focusedView setFocusable false   focusedView setFocusableInTouchMode false   focusedView setFocusable true   focusedView setFocusableInTouchMode true

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Try the following  calling clearAllEditTextFocuses      private final boolean clearAllEditTextFocuses         View v   getCurrentFocus        if v instanceof EditText            final FocusedEditTextItems list   new FocusedEditTextItems            list addAndClearFocus  EditText  v              Focus von allen EditTexten entfernen         boolean repeat   true          do               v   getCurrentFocus                if v instanceof EditText                    if list containsView v                       repeat   false                  else list addAndClearFocus  EditText  v                 else repeat   false            while repeat            final boolean result     v instanceof EditText             Focus wieder setzen         list reset            return result        else return false     private final static class FocusedEditTextItem        private final boolean focusable       private final boolean focusableInTouchMode        NonNull     private final EditText editText       private FocusedEditTextItem final  NonNull EditText v            editText   v          focusable   v isFocusable            focusableInTouchMode   v isFocusableInTouchMode               private final void clearFocus             if focusable              editText setFocusable false           if focusableInTouchMode              editText setFocusableInTouchMode false           editText clearFocus               private final void reset             if focusable              editText setFocusable true           if focusableInTouchMode              editText setFocusableInTouchMode true             private final static class FocusedEditTextItems extends ArrayList lt FocusedEditTextItem gt         private final void addAndClearFocus final  NonNull EditText v            final FocusedEditTextItem item   new FocusedEditTextItem v           add item           item clearFocus               private final boolean containsView final  NonNull View v            boolean result   false          for FocusedEditTextItem item  this                if item editText    v                    result   true                  break                                  return result             private final void reset             for FocusedEditTextItem item  this              item reset

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android focusableInTouchMode  true  android focusable  true  android clickable  true    Add them to your ViewGroup that includes your EditTextView  It works properly to my Constraint Layout  Hope this help

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What about just adding android windowSoftInputMode  stateHidden  on your activity in the manifest    Taken from a smart man commenting on this  https   stackoverflow com a 2059394 956975

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android descendantFocusability  beforeDescendants   using the following in the activity with some layout options below seemed to work as desired    getWindow   getDecorView   findViewById android R id content  clearFocus      in connection with the following parameters on the root view    lt  xml     android focusable  true      android focusableInTouchMode  true      android descendantFocusability  beforeDescendants    gt    https   developer android com reference android view ViewGroup attr android descendantFocusability  Answer thanks to  https   forums xamarin com discussion 1856 how-to-disable-auto-focus-on-edit-text  About windowSoftInputMode     There s yet another point of contention to be aware of  By default    Android will automatically assign initial focus to the first EditText   or focusable control in your Activity  It naturally follows that the   InputMethod  typically the soft keyboard  will respond to the focus   event by showing itself  The windowSoftInputMode attribute in   AndroidManifest xml  when set to stateAlwaysHidden  instructs the   keyboard to ignore this automatically-assigned initial focus    lt activity     android name   MyActivity      android windowSoftInputMode  stateAlwaysHidden   gt        great reference

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lt LinearLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android            xmlns app  http   schemas android com apk res-auto            android id    id ll root view            android layout width  match parent            android layout height  match parent            android orientation  vertical  gt   LinearLayout llRootView   findViewBindId R id ll root view   llRootView clearFocus      I use this when already finished update profile info and remove all focus from EditText in my layout        Update  In parent layout content my EditText add line   android focusableInTouchMode  true

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You can use View clearFocus    Use View requestFocus   called from onResume

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You do not need to clear focus  just add this code where you want to focus  time statusTV setFocusable true    time statusTV requestFocus     InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager this getSystemService Service INPUT METHOD SERVICE    imm showSoftInput  time statusTV  0

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Old question  but I came across it when I had a similar issue and thought I d share what I ended up doing    The view that gained focus was different each time so I used the very generic   View current   getCurrentFocus    if  current    null  current clearFocus

[android] How to remove focus without setting focus to another control?

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