How to set focus on a view when a layout is created and displayed

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Currently  I have a layout which contains a Button  a TextView and an EditText  When the layout is displayed  the focus will be automatically put on the EditText  which will trigger the keyboard to show up on Android phone  It is not what I want  Is there any way that I can set the focus on TextView or on nothing when a layout is displayed

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None of the answers above works for me  The only  let s say  solution has been to change the first TextView in a disabled EditText that receives focus and then add  getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS HIDDEN     in the onCreate callback to prevent keyboard to be shown  Now my first EditText looks like a TextView but can get the initial focus  finally

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Set focus  The framework will handled   moving focus in response to user   input  To force focus to a specific   view  call requestFocus

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you can add an edit text of size  0 dip  as the first control in ur xml  so  that will get the focus on render  make sure its focusable and all

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Focus is for selecting UI components when you are using something besides touch  ie  a d-pad  a keyboard  etc    Any view can receive focus  though some are not focusable by default   You can make a view focusable with  setFocusable true  and force it to be focused with requestFocus     However  it is important to note that when you are in touch mode  focus is disabled  So if you are using your fingers  changing the focus programmatically doesn t do anything  The exception to this is for views that receive input from an input editor  An EditText is such an example  For this special situation setFocusableInTouchMode true  is used to let the soft keyboard know where to send input  An EditText has this setting by default  The soft keyboard will automatically pop up  If you don t want the soft keyboard popping up automatically then you can temporarily suppress it as  abeljus noted  InputMethodManager inputManager    InputMethodManager  getSystemService INPUT METHOD SERVICE   inputManager hideSoftInputFromWindow this getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    InputMethodManager HIDE NOT ALWAYS    When a user clicks on the EditText  it should still show the keyboard  though  Further reading   Having Trouble Focusing  A Primer on Focus in Android Android Developers Blog  Touch Mode

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This works   getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS HIDDEN

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to change the focus make the textView in xml focusable   lt TextView               android focusable  true                android id    id tv id              android layout width  wrap content              android layout height  wrap content   gt    and in java in on create  textView requestFocus     or simply hide the keyboard   public void hideKeyBoard Activity act        act getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE HIDDEN       InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  act getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE

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You can start by adding android windowSoftInputMode to your activity in AndroidManifest xml file    lt activity android name  YourActivity            android windowSoftInputMode  stateHidden    gt    This will make the keyboard to not show  but EditText is still got focus  To solve that  you can set android focusableInTouchmode and android focusable to true on your root view    lt LinearLayout android orientation  vertical                android focusable  true                android focusableInTouchMode  true                                   gt       lt EditText                       gt       lt TextView                       gt       lt Button                       gt   lt  LinearLayout gt    The code above will make sure that RelativeLayout is getting focus instead of EditText

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i think a text view is not focusable  Try to set the focus on a button for example  or to set the property focusable to true

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Set these lines to OnResume as well and make sure if focusableInTouch is set to true while you initialize your controls   lt controlName gt  requestFocus      lt controlName gt  requestFocusFromTouch

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To set focus  delay the requestFocus   using a Handler   private Handler mHandler  new Handler     public class HelloAndroid extends Activity          Called when the activity is first created         Override    public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState         super onCreate savedInstanceState        setContentView R layout main         LinearLayout mainVw    LinearLayout  findViewById R id main layout         LinearLayout LayoutParams params   new LinearLayout LayoutParams              LinearLayout LayoutParams FILL PARENT             LinearLayout LayoutParams WRAP CONTENT         EditText edit   new EditText this        edit setLayoutParams params        mainVw addView edit         TextView titleTv   new TextView this        titleTv setText  test         titleTv setLayoutParams params        mainVw addView titleTv         mHandler post         new Runnable                       public void run                            titleTv requestFocus

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You can try just hidding the keyboard  Something like this   InputMethodManager inputManager    InputMethodManager  getSystemService INPUT METHOD SERVICE   inputManager hideSoftInputFromWindow this getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    InputMethodManager HIDE NOT ALWAYS

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Try  comp requestFocusInWindow

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You should add this   android focusableInTouchMode  true

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The last suggestion is the correct solution  Just to repeat  first set android focusable  true  in the layout xml file  then requestFocus   on the view in your code

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Set   android focusable  true    in your  lt EditText  gt

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