Question

I’m writing a custom listview and I’ve put a EditText and textViews. The issue is focus on the list doesn’t work. When i touch the EditText, the softkeyboard appears but EditText loses focus. When I touch it again the softkeyboard changes and I’m able to write in the EditText after pressing ‘done’. EditText is cleared. Do you have any idea why this happens?

Answer 1

This MIGHT just be a stupid thing i’m saying here, but you could try the following: place an OnClickListener on the ListView items. If you click on an item in the list, and that item is an EditText, then use “requestFocus()” method to focus it.

I’m thinking, but i might be wrong, that both the EditText and ListView item (row) are requesting focus when you click on them, and ListView probably “wins” 🙂 But this is just a guess, I might be wrong.

    ((ListView)findViewById(R.id.myListView)).setOnItemClickListener(new android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> adapter, View view, int position, long id) {              
                   /* Here, check to see if the item clicked is the EditText or whatever.
                    * If so, then set focus to it */
            }
        });