How to remove focus from single editText

Question

In my application I have a single EditText together with some TextViews  button and a spinner  My EditText receives focus since it is the only focusable view in this activity  I believe  My EditText shows with an orange border and cursor on the field     Now I would like to remove the focus from this field  I don t want the cursor and border to show   Is there a way to do this     I have been able to focus on the button by doing button seFocusableInTouchMode   and button requestFocus    But this highlights the button and is obviously not what I want

User · Answer

Use the attached code to give the focus to "someone else", this is OK if you have a view where you simply want to dismiss the keyboard and release the focus, you don't really care about who gets it.

Use like this: FocusHelper.releaseFocus(viewToReleaseFocusFrom)

public class FocusHelper {
    public static void releaseFocus(View view) {
        ViewParent parent = view.getParent();
        ViewGroup group = null;
        View child = null;
        while (parent != null) {
            if (parent instanceof ViewGroup) {
                group = (ViewGroup) parent;
                for (int i = 0; i < group.getChildCount(); i++) {
                    child = group.getChildAt(i);
                    if(child != view && child.isFocusable())
                        child.requestFocus();
                }
            }
            parent = parent.getParent();
        }
    }
}

Doc: The method traverses from the child view and up the view tree and looks for the first child to give focus to.

Edit: You can also use the API for this:

View focusableView = v.focusSearch(View.FOCUS_DOWN);
if(focusableView != null) focusableView.requestFocus();

User · Answer

For me this worked Add these attributes to your EditText android focusable  quot true quot  android focusableInTouchMode  quot true quot   After this in your code you can simply write editText clearFocus

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lt EditText android layout height  wrap content  android background   android color transparent  android layout width  match parent       android clickable  false       android focusable  false       android textSize  40dp       android textAlignment  center       android textStyle  bold        android textAppearance   style Base Theme AppCompat Light DarkActionBar      android text  AVIATORS   gt

User · Answer

Just find another view and give it focus instead   var refresher   FindViewById lt MvxSwipeRefreshLayout gt  Resource Id refresher    refresher RequestFocus

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If I understand your question correctly  this should help you   TextView tv1    TextView  findViewById R id tv1   tv1  setFocusable false

User · Answer

Just include this line  android selectAllOnFocus  false    in the XML segment corresponding to the EditText layout

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i had a similar problem with the editText  which gained focus since the activity was started  this problem i fixed easily like this   you add this piece of code into the layout that contains the editText in xml       android id    id linearlayout       android focusableInTouchMode  true    dont forget the android id  without it i ve got an error   the other problem i had with the editText is that once it gain the first focus  the focus never disappeared  this is a piece of my code in java  it has an editText and a button that captures the text in the editText       editText  EditText  findViewById R id et1       tvhome   TextView findViewById R id tv home       etBtn   Button  findViewById R id btn homeadd       etBtn setOnClickListener new View OnClickListener                      Override         public void onClick View v                        tvhome setText  editText getText   toString                        this code is for hiding the keyboard after pressing the button             View view   Settings this getCurrentFocus                if  view    null                                   InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE                   imm hideSoftInputFromWindow view getWindowToken    0                                               editText getText   clear     clears the text             editText setFocusable false    disables the focus of the editText              Log i  onCreate   Button onClickListener      et isfocused    editText isFocused                           editText setOnClickListener new View OnClickListener                   Override         public void onClick View v                         if v getId      R id et1                                v setFocusableInTouchMode true     when the editText is clicked it will gain focus again                       this code is for enabling the keyboard at the first click on the editText                 if v isFocused     the code is optional  because at the second click the keyboard shows by itself                                       InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE                       imm showSoftInput v  InputMethodManager SHOW IMPLICIT                                                           Log i  onCreate   EditText onClickListener      et isfocused    v isFocused                               else                 Log i  onCreate   EditText onClickListener      the listener did nt consume the event                        hope it will help to some of you

User · Answer

You only have to set the ViewGroup with the attribute   android focusableInTouchMode  true   The ViewGroup is the layout that includes every child view

User · Answer

if Edittext parent layout is Linear then add      android focusable  true    android focusableInTouchMode  true    like below       lt LinearLayout             android layout width  match parent              android layout height  wrap content              android orientation  vertical              android focusable  true              android focusableInTouchMode  true  gt               lt EditText  gt                           when Edittext parent layout is Relative then     android descendantFocusability  beforeDescendants    android focusableInTouchMode  true    like      lt RelativeLayout             android layout width  match parent              android layout height  wrap content              android descendantFocusability  beforeDescendants              android focusableInTouchMode  true  gt               lt EditText  gt

User · Answer

You just have to clear the focus from the view as  EditText clearFocus

User · Answer

I know is too late  but for somebody whit the same need editText setFocusable false  si what you are looking for

User · Answer

new to android   tried   getWindow   getDecorView   clearFocus      it works for me    just to add    your layout should have    android focusable  true   android focusableInTouchMode  true

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check this question and the selected answer  Stop EditText from gaining focus at Activity startup It s ugly but it works  and as far as I know there s no better solution

User · Answer

Did you try to use old good View clearFocus

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I will try to explain how to remove the focus  flashing cursor  from EditText view with some more details and understanding  Usually this line of code should work  editText clearFocus     but it could be situation when the editText still has the focus  and this is happening because clearFocus   method is trying to set the focus back to the first focusable view in the activity fragment layout    So if you have only one view in the activity which is focusable  and this usually will be your EditText view  then clearFocus   will set the focus again to that view  and for you it will look that clearFocus   is not working  Remember that EditText views are focusable true  by default so if you have only one EditText view inside your layout it will aways get the focus on the screen  In this case your solution will be to find the parent view some layout   ex LinearLayout  Framelayout  inside your layout file and set to it this xml code  android focusable  true  android focusableInTouchMode  true    After that when you execute editText clearFocus   the parent view inside your layout will accept the focus and your editText will be clear of the focus   I hope this will help somebody to understand how clearFocus   is working

User · Answer

Since I was in a widget and not in an activity I did    getRootView   clearFocus

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I ve tryed much to clear focus of an edit text  clearfocus   and focusable and other things never worked for me  So I came up with the idea of letting a fake edittext gain focus    lt LinearLayout             android layout width  match parent      android layout height  match parent  gt        lt LinearLayout                     android layout width  match parent          android layout height  match parent  gt        lt  --here comes your stuff-- gt        lt  LinearLayout gt        lt EditText         android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content          android id    id fake          android textSize  1sp   gt    lt  LinearLayout gt    then in your java code   View view   Activity this getCurrentFocus                        if  view    null                            InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE                           imm hideSoftInputFromWindow view getWindowToken    0                           fake requestFocus                            it will hide the keyboard and remove the focus of any edittext that has it  and also as you see the fake edittext is out of screen and can t be seen

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