Question

I have multiline ListView with a few EditText.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/edit_tail"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:inputType="number" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/edit_cost"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:inputType="number" />

   <EditText
        android:id="@+id/edit_rest"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:inputType="number" />

</LinearLayout>

In EditText, after typing ‘Enter’ key, system establishes focus as follows:

[EditText]  [EditText]  [EditText]
     ↓           ↓          ↓
[EditText]  [EditText]  [EditText]
     ↓           ↓          ↓
[EditText]  [EditText]  [EditText]
     ↓           ↓          ↓
    ...         ...        ...

But I want:

     [EditText] -> [EditText] -> [EditText] ->

   -> [EditText] -> [EditText] -> [EditText] ->

  ->  [EditText] -> [EditText] -> [EditText]

How solve this issue?

Answer 1

I just had the same problem of moving focus horizontally in EditTexts. In my case I just had a few EditTexts so I added android:imeOptions="actionNext" to each EditTexts xml and then added OnEditorActionListener to each EditText. Code sample:

_heightEdit.setOnEditorActionLister(getGotoNextListener(_weightEdit));
private OnEditorActionListener getGotoNextListener(final EditText next) {
        return new OnEditorActionListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
                if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_NEXT) {
                    next.requestFocus();
                    return true;
                }
                return false;
            }
        };
    }

This is reasonably nice solution to the problem.