Question

I have an EditText that the user can write in, when the app starts there is already a string in the EditText. When the user clicks the EditText it becomes focused and the curser is where the user clicked the EditText text box.

I know that the code for setting the curser to the start is :

editText.setSelection(0);

But I don’t know where to put this code, I tried to it in beforeTextChanged but it didn’t do the job.

Answer 1

You can do this by setting an putting an OnFocusChangedListener. You’d do something like this:

et.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener(){
  public void onFocusChange(View view, boolean hasFocus){
    if(hasFocus){
      ((EditText)view).setSelection(0);
    }
  }
});

Where et is the text edit you want to set the listener on.

Full-discolsure: haven’t tried this code out myself.