Question

When I try to press the EditText for it to gain focus, it only works from the middle of it to the left. If I press from the middle to the right nothing happens.

(It has width = fill_parent).

I tested on Android 2.2 and 4.2.1. Same behaviour on both.

Why does this happen and can it be “fixed”?

Is it an Android platform bug?

UPDATE:

First I was thinking it had something to do with hidding the keyboard on activity start but i’ve tried 4 options:

Adding to the base LinearLayout (Check Stop EditText from gaining focus at Activity startup)

<LinearLayout
....
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true" />

I’ve also tried:

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

And changing on the Manifest:

<activity.... android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustUnspecified|stateHidden"/>

And using the default behaviour.

…all have the same behaviour described above.

Answer 1

Solved the problem. It had to do with the EditText width.