Android Force EditText to remove focus

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I would like to be able to remove the focus from the EditText  For example if the Keyboard appears  and the user hides it with the back button  I would like the focus and the cursor to disappear  How can it be done

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Remove focus but remain focusable   editText setFocusableInTouchMode false   editText setFocusable false   editText setFocusableInTouchMode true   editText setFocusable true     EditText will lose focus  but can gain it again on a new touch event

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try to use this one on your view it worked for me    lt View     android id    id fucused      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android focusable  true      android focusableInTouchMode  true   gt

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check your xml file   lt EditText             android id    id editText1              android layout width  wrap content              android layout height  wrap content              android textSize  14sp   gt                  lt requestFocus   gt      lt  EditText gt      Remove     lt requestFocus   gt    from xml

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This is my very first answer on SO  so don t be too harsh on me if there are mistakes   D  There are few answers floating around the SO  but I feel the urge to post my complete solution cause this drove me nuts  I ve grabbed bits and pieces from all around so forgive me if I don t give respective credits to everyone         I ll simplify my result cause my view has too many elements and I don t wanna spam with that and will try to make it as generic as possible      For your layout you need a parent your EditText and parent view defined something like this     lt LinearLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android                 android orientation  vertical                android layout width  match parent                 android layout height  match parent                android id    id lytContainer                android descendantFocusability  beforeDescendants                android focusableInTouchMode  true  gt   lt EditText android layout width  fill parent                 android layout height  wrap content                 android id    id etEditor                android inputType  number                android layout gravity  center                 android hint   string enter your text                android textColor   android color darker gray                 android textSize  12dp                android textAlignment  center                 android gravity  center                 android clickable  true   gt   lt  LinearLayout gt    So  I needed a few things here  I needed to have a Placeholder for my EditText - which is that -       android hint  hint    Also   android descendantFocusability  beforeDescendants  android focusableInTouchMode  true    made it happen for EditText not to be focused on entering the Activity and later on in the Activity itself when setting it this setting helps so you can set onTouchListener on it to steal the focus away from EditText   Now  in the Activity   package com at keyboardhide   import android app Activity  import android content Context  import android os Bundle  import android view MotionEvent  import android view View  import android view WindowManager  import android view View OnTouchListener  import android view inputmethod InputMethodManager  import android widget EditText  import android widget LinearLayout   public class MainActivity extends Activity implements OnTouchListener  private EditText getEditText  private LinearLayout getLinearLayout   Override public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState        super onCreate savedInstanceState       this getWindow   setSoftInputMode              WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS HIDDEN        setContentView R layout keyboardmain       getEditText    EditText findViewById R id etEditor       getLinearLayout    LinearLayout findViewById R id lytContainer       getLinearLayout setOnTouchListener this        getEditText setOnEditorActionListener new TextView OnEditorActionListener              Override         public boolean onEditorAction TextView v  int actionId  KeyEvent event                if  actionId    EditorInfo IME ACTION DONE                    Log d  EDTA    text was entered                     getEditText clearFocus                    imm hideSoftInputFromWindow barcodeNo getWindowToken    0                   return true                            return false                       Override public boolean onTouch View v  MotionEvent event        if v  getLinearLayout           InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE           imm hideSoftInputFromWindow getEditText getWindowToken    0           getEditText clearFocus            return true                return false            Few of the answers for bits I found on this question page  and the part with the Activity solution I found on this blog  The rest I missed which I had to figure out myself was clearing focus on the EditText which I added to both inside the setOnEditorActionListener and onTouchLister for the parent view   Hope this helps someone and saves their time      Cheers  Z

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EditText setOnKeyListener new OnKeyListener                 public boolean onKey View view  int keyCode  KeyEvent event                    if  keyCode    KeyEvent KEYCODE ENTER                        InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE   imm hideSoftInputFromWindow URLText getWindowToken    0                        EditText setFocusable false                       EditText setFocusableInTouchMode true                       return true                    else                       return false

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Add these two properties to your parent layout  ex  Linear Layout  Relative Layout   android focusable  true  android focusableInTouchMode  true     It will do the trick

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you have to remove  lt requestFocus  gt   if you don t use it and still the same problem  user LinearLayout as a parent and set  android focusable  true  android focusableInTouchMode  true    Hope it s help you

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Add LinearLayout before EditText in your XML    lt LinearLayout      android focusable  true      android focusableInTouchMode  true       android clickable  true      android layout width  0px      android layout height  0px    gt    Or you can do this same thing by adding these lines to view before your  EditText     lt Button     android id    id btnSearch      android layout width  50dp      android layout height  50dp      android focusable  true      android focusableInTouchMode  true      android gravity  center      android text  Quick Search      android textColor   fff      android textSize  13sp      android textStyle  bold    gt    lt EditText     android id    id edtSearch      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android layout alignParentLeft  true      android layout centerVertical  true      android layout marginRight  5dp      android gravity  left      android hint  Name      android maxLines  1      android singleLine  true      android textColorHint   color blue      android textSize  13sp      android textStyle  bold    gt

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I had the same problem  It made me more than crazy   I had an extended Dialog with a ScrollView that had a TableLayout with extended LinearLayout that contained a SeekBar and a EditText   The first EditText had always autofocus after showing the Dialog and after finishing editing the text over the keyboard the EditText still had the focus and the keyboard was still visible   I tried nearly all solutions of this thread and none worked for me   So here my simple solution   text   EditText   text setOnEditorActionListener  new OnEditorActionListener         public boolean onEditorAction  TextView v  int actionId  KeyEvent event            if   event    null  amp  amp  event getKeyCode      KeyEvent KEYCODE ENTER                  actionId    EditorInfo IME ACTION DONE                 text clearFocus                 InputMethodManager iMgr   null              iMgr    InputMethodManager mContext getSystemService  Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE                iMgr hideSoftInputFromWindow  text getWindowToken    0                      return true              By the way I didn t used any of the following snippets to solve it     setFocusableInTouchMode  true     setFocusable  true     setDescendantFocusability  ViewGroup FOCUS BEFORE DESCENDANTS     AND I didn t used a spacer item like a View with width and height of 1dp   Hopefully it helps someone  D

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You can make cursor and focus disappear by  edittext clearFocus      But detect when the key board hide is a hard work

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You can also include android windowSoftInputMode  stateAlwaysHidden  in your manifest action section   This is equivalent to     this getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS HIDDEN     but in XML way   FYI  you can also hide the keyboard with codes      hide virtual keyboard InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE   imm hideSoftInputFromWindow mYourEditText getWindowToken    0

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editText setFocusableInTouchMode true    The EditText will be able to get the focus when the user touch it  When the main layout  activity  dialog  etc   becomes visible the EditText doesn t automatically get the focus even though it is the first view in the layout

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You can add this to onCreate and it will hide the keyboard every time the Activity starts  You can also programmatically change the focus to another item   this getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS HIDDEN

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You can also include android windowSoftInputMode  stateAlwaysHidden  in your manifest action section   This is equivalent to   this getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS HIDDEN

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To hide the keyboard when activity starts   write the following code in onCreate      InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Activity INPUT METHOD SERVICE   imm hideSoftInputFromWindow getWindow   getDecorView   getWindowToken    0     To clear focus and remove cursor from edittext       editText clearFocus     editText setCursorVisible false

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remove autofocus edittext android  It s working for me  Edit In the link they suggest to use LinearLayout  but simple View will work   lt View     android id    id focus thief      android layout width  1dp      android layout height  1dp      android focusable  true      android focusableInTouchMode  true    gt    Then if this  thief  is placed at the top of the layout  to be first focusable item  calls to clearFocus   will work

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In the comments you asked if another view can be focused instead of the EditText  Yes it can  Use  requestFocus   method for the view you want to be focused at the beginning  in onCreate   method   Also focusing other view will cut out some amount of code   code for hiding the keyboard for example

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You can avoid any focus on your elements by setting the attribute android descendantFocusability of the parent element   Here is an example    lt ScrollView xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android  xmlns tools  http   schemas android com tools  android id    id search  scroller  android descendantFocusability  blocksDescendants  android layout width  match parent  android layout height  match parent  android layout alignParentLeft  true  android layout alignParentTop  true   gt   lt  ScrollView gt    Here  the attribute android descendantFocusability set to  blocksDescendants  is blocking the focus on the child elements   You can find more info here

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Add to your parent layout where did you put your EditText this android focusableInTouchMode  true

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