Question

I’m not able to figure out a really stupid issue about TextView!!
I have a simple Layout with a Button and a TextView. This is the Layout:

<Button
    android:id="@+id/button1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
    android:text="Button1" />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_below="@+id/button1"
    android:focusable="true"
    android:clickable="true"
    android:text="TextView1"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"/>

When the Button has focus and i press the “down arrow” in Emulator the TextView doesn’t get the focus (it doesn’t turn blue!!) Why? Please help me!!

Answer 1

Despite the TextView doesn’t turn blue, it is getting focus.

To see the focus/unfocus happening, you can, for instance, define a color change in the text. This way, these events are perceptive to the user.

Create a .xml file and put into /res/color/
In my case, i named the file as “color_text_view.xml”.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
      <item android:state_focused="true" android:color="#00FF00"/>
      <item android:color="#FF00FF"/>
    </selector>

And add the android:textColor="@color/color_text_view" to the textview.

<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_below="@+id/button1"
android:focusable="true"
android:clickable="true"
android:text="TextView1"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:textColor="@color/color_text_view"/>

Hope this help!