Move to another EditText when Soft Keyboard Next is clicked on Android

Question

When I press the 'Next', the focus on the User EditText must be move to the Password. Then, from Password, it must move to the right and so on. Can you help me on how to code it?

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<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/LinearLayout01"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/username"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="User Name*" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/txt_User"
        android:layout_width="290dp"
        android:layout_height="33dp"
        android:singleLine="true" />

</LinearLayout>


<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/LinearLayout02"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/password"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Password*" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/txt_Password"
        android:layout_width="290dp"
        android:layout_height="33dp"
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:password="true" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/confirm"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Password*" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/txt_Confirm"
        android:layout_width="290dp"
        android:layout_height="33dp"
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:password="true" />

</LinearLayout>

Take a look at android:imeOptions – Tobrun Aug 01 '13 at 09:11 — Tobrun, Aug 01 '13 at 09:11
where should I put that code? – androidBoomer Aug 01 '13 at 09:11 — androidBoomer, Aug 01 '13 at 09:11

score 523 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 27 '17 at 21:27

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Focus Handling

Focus movement is based on an algorithm which finds the nearest neighbor in a given direction. In rare cases, the default algorithm may not match the intended behavior of the developer.

Change default behaviour of directional navigation by using following XML attributes:

android:nextFocusDown="@+id/.."  
android:nextFocusLeft="@+id/.."    
android:nextFocusRight="@+id/.."    
android:nextFocusUp="@+id/.."

Besides directional navigation you can use tab navigation. For this you need to use

android:nextFocusForward="@+id/.."

To get a particular view to take focus, call

view.requestFocus()

To listen to certain changing focus events use a View.OnFocusChangeListener

Keyboard button

You can use android:imeOptions for handling that extra button on your keyboard.

Additional features you can enable in an IME associated with an editor to improve the integration with your application. The constants here correspond to those defined by imeOptions.

The constants of imeOptions includes a variety of actions and flags, see the link above for their values.

Value example

ActionNext :

the action key performs a "next" operation, taking the user to the next field that will accept text.

ActionDone :

the action key performs a "done" operation, typically meaning there is nothing more to input and the IME will be closed.

Code example:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity" >

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_marginLeft="32dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
        android:imeOptions="actionNext"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:ems="10" >

        <requestFocus />
    </EditText>

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/editText2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_below="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_marginTop="24dp"
        android:imeOptions="actionDone"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:ems="10" />

</RelativeLayout>

If you want to listen to imeoptions events use a TextView.OnEditorActionListener.

editText.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
        if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_SEARCH) {
            performSearch();
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
});

edited Jan 27 '17 at 21:27

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answered Aug 01 '13 at 09:25

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In my case `android:nextFocusForward="@+id/.."` did the trick. – Mr.Moustard Nov 17 '14 at 12:28
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I put `android:imeOptions="actionNext"` to all my EditTexts and the problem is gone. Lot of thanks. – Joaquin Iurchuk Jun 08 '15 at 16:29
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I had to use both joaquin and Mr.Moustard's for each EditText. – SMBiggs Jan 19 '16 at 16:33
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For my app, just using android:imeOptions="actionNext" didn't work. The EditText needed android:inputType="[something]" before it would listen to the imeOptions flag. – Chris Kelly Aug 11 '16 at 22:39
agree with you @ChrisKelly – Abhishek Singh Jan 04 '17 at 12:00
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How does it know which one to focus when pressing NEXT ? Does it check the "right" and then the "down" ? Is there a function to get the next view's id to be focused, if the user would press the NEXT key ? – android developer Feb 16 '17 at 11:32
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@androiddeveloper When pressing NEXT, the focus goes to down. You can set the next view id by, `android:nextFocusDown="@+id/NextFocusItem"`. – Sameera Nandasiri Aug 02 '17 at 12:59
@SameeraNandasiri What about when there is a focusable view on the right? and, is there a function to get the next view's id to be focused, if the user would press the NEXT key ? – android developer Aug 02 '17 at 14:51
@androiddeveloper Even if the view is on the right, you need to set it as nextFocusDown in order to focus changed by pressing NEXT. Its behavior is, focus go down when pressing NEXT. So by manually changing nextFocusDown parameter, we can override that behavior. It may be not the right way. But it works! – Sameera Nandasiri Aug 04 '17 at 12:05
@SameeraNandasiri I see. But what about the other question I asked: is there a function to get the next view's id to be focused, if the user would press the NEXT key ? – android developer Aug 06 '17 at 11:26
@androiddeveloper Yes, You can get the next view's id to be focused by `.getNextFocusDownId();` – Sameera Nandasiri Aug 08 '17 at 10:41
@SameeraNandasiri What would happen if the other EditText doesn't have ID, or if it has an ID, but we just didn't set the attribute of "android:nextFocusDown" ? – android developer Aug 08 '17 at 10:43
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@androiddeveloper In that case, I don't know a method to do it. If I wanted that functionality, I would set nextFocusDown attribute. I would like to know if there is a way to get Next Focus when nextFocusDown is not set. – Sameera Nandasiri Aug 08 '17 at 11:18
That was the question. How to get the next view that will get the focus... Anyway, thank you. – android developer Aug 08 '17 at 12:01
This works if the field type is EditText. I was using AutocompleteTextView, there it didn't work, later on I had to change field type to EditText to make it work. Thanks. – kamal_prd Apr 17 '18 at 13:58
i used same for next focus but issue with EditText with password inputType ,when i press next button from keyboard focus goes to passwordToggle(hide and show) eye icon. what to do for focus next edittext instead of that eye icon. – Arbaz.in Aug 27 '19 at 11:33

score 70 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 01 '13 at 10:24

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android:inputType="text"

should bring the same effect. After hiting next to bring the focus to the next element.

android:nextFocusDown="@+id/.."

use this in addition if you dont want the next view to get the focus

answered Aug 01 '13 at 10:24

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Abror Esonaliev · Answer 3 · 2016-12-11T17:59:17.093

add your editText

android:imeOptions="actionNext"
android:singleLine="true"

add property to activity in manifest

    android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize|stateHidden"

in layout file ScrollView set as root or parent layout all ui

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    tools:context="com.ukuya.marketplace.activity.SignInActivity">

    <ScrollView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

       <!--your items-->

    </ScrollView>

</LinearLayout>

if you do not want every time it adds, create style: add style in values/style.xml

default/style:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
        <item name="editTextStyle">@style/AppTheme.CustomEditText</item>
    </style>

<style name="AppTheme.CustomEditText"     parent="android:style/Widget.EditText">
        //...
        <item name="android:imeOptions">actionNext</item>
        <item name="android:singleLine">true</item>
    </style>

Use of `android:singleLine="true"` is depricated. – Praveenkumar Sep 18 '19 at 13:30 — Praveenkumar, Sep 18 '19 at 13:30

score 24 · Answer 4 · edited Feb 17 '18 at 09:21

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Use the following line

android:nextFocusDown="@+id/parentedit"

parentedit is the ID of the next EditText to be focused.

The above line will also need the following line.

android:inputType="text"

or

android:inputType="number"

Thanks for the suggestion @Alexei Khlebnikov.

edited Feb 17 '18 at 09:21

Mohammedsalim Shivani

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answered Aug 01 '13 at 09:12

Spring Breaker

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It worked for me. Together with `android:inputType="text"` or `android:inputType="number"`. – Alexei Khlebnikov Jan 12 '15 at 15:41
if nextFocusDown won't work, then use nextFocusForward. It helped me – Kishan Solanki Apr 24 '18 at 05:17
android:nextFocusDown="@+id/parentedit" worked for me! thanks – DIRTY DAVE Nov 12 '19 at 12:30

score 13 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 21 '17 at 06:43

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android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"
android:imeOptions="actionNext"
android:singleLine="true"
android:nextFocusForward="@+id/.."

Adding extra field

android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"

worked in my case!

answered Feb 21 '17 at 06:43

Tripathee Gaurav

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score 9 · Answer 6 · edited Jan 30 '16 at 16:17

In your onEditorAction handler, keep in mind that you must return a boolean that indicates if you are handling the action (true) or if you applied some logic and want the normal behaviour (false), as in the following example:

EditText te = ...
te.setOnEditorActionListener(new OnEditorActionListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event){
        if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_NEXT) {
            // Some logic here.
            return true; // Focus will do whatever you put in the logic.
        }
        return false;  // Focus will change according to the actionId
    }
});

I found this when I returned true after performing my logic since focus did not move.

If you return "true" from if condition focus will not change after your custom logic. — durgeshtrivedi, Jul 31 '20 at 12:34

score 9 · Answer 7 · answered May 21 '18 at 05:05

<AutoCompleteTextView
                android:id="@+id/email"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:drawableLeft="@drawable/user"
                android:hint="@string/username"
                android:inputType="text"
                android:maxLines="1"
                android:imeOptions="actionNext"
                android:singleLine="true" />

These three lines do the magic

            android:maxLines="1"
            android:imeOptions="actionNext"
            android:singleLine="true"

score 8 · Answer 8 · answered May 19 '20 at 10:51

In Kotlin I have used Bellow like..

xml:

<EditText
  android:id="@+id/et_amount"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:imeOptions="actionNext"
  android:inputType="number"
  android:singleLine="true" />

in kotlin:

et_amount.setOnEditorActionListener { v, actionId, event ->

    if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_NEXT) {
        // do some code
        true
    } else {
        false
    }
}

score 6 · Answer 9 · answered Oct 30 '19 at 05:44

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Try Using android:imeOptions="actionNext" tag for every editText in the View it will automatically focus to the next edittext when you click on Next of the softKeyboard.

answered Oct 30 '19 at 05:44

Kuldeep Rathee

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score 5 · Answer 10 · answered Nov 08 '17 at 17:41

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just use the following code it will work fine and use inputType for every edittext and the next button will appear in keyboard.

android:inputType="text" or android:inputType="number" etc

answered Nov 08 '17 at 17:41

pawan kumar

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score 5 · Answer 11 · answered Jun 25 '19 at 17:29

Simple way, when you have just few fields one by one:

Need to set

android:maxLines="1"

android:imeOptions="actionNext"

android:inputType="" <- Set your type of text, in other case it will be Multiline and prevent to go next

Sample:

<EditText android:layout_width="match_parent"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              android:textSize="@dimen/text_large"
              android:maxLines="1"
              android:inputType="textEmailAddress"
              android:imeOptions="actionNext"
              android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/element_margin_large"
              android:layout_marginRight="@dimen/element_margin_large"
              android:layout_marginTop="0dp"/>

score 4 · Answer 12 · answered Sep 11 '18 at 13:53

In some cases you may need to move the focus to the next field manually :

focusSearch(FOCUS_DOWN).requestFocus();

You might need this if, for example, you have a text field that opens a date picker on click, and you want the focus to automatically move to the next input field once a date is selected by the user and the picker closes. There's no way to handle this in XML, it has to be done programmatically.

score 2 · Answer 13 · answered May 15 '18 at 18:57

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Add inputType to edittext and on enter it will go the next edittext

android:inputType="text"
android:inputType="textEmailAddress"
android:inputType="textPassword"

and many more.

inputType=textMultiLine does not go to the next edittext on enter

answered May 15 '18 at 18:57

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score 1 · Answer 14 · answered May 25 '15 at 15:14

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/ScrollView01"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fillViewport="true"
android:scrollbars="vertical" >

<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="666dp"
android:background="#1500FFe5"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" >
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/TextView02"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@+id/editGrWt"
    android:layout_marginTop="14dp"
    android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/textView3"
    android:ems="6"
    android:text="    Diamond :"
    android:textColor="@color/background_material_dark"
    android:textSize="15sp" />
  <EditText
    android:id="@+id/editDWt"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/TextView02"
    android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/editGrWt"
    android:background="@color/bright_foreground_inverse_material_light"
    android:ems="4"
    android:hint="Weight"
    android:inputType="numberDecimal"
    android:nextFocusLeft="@+id/editDRate"
    android:selectAllOnFocus="true"
    android:imeOptions="actionNext"

    />
 <requestFocus />


<TextView
    android:id="@+id/TextView03"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/TextView02"
    android:layout_below="@+id/TextView02"
    android:layout_marginTop="14dp"
    android:ems="6"
    android:text="    Diamond :"
    android:textColor="@color/background_material_dark"
    android:textSize="15sp" />

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/editDWt1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/TextView03"
    android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/TextView03"
    android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/editDWt"
    android:background="@color/bright_foreground_inverse_material_light"
    android:ems="4"
    android:hint="Weight"
    android:inputType="numberDecimal"
    android:text="0"
    android:selectAllOnFocus="true"
    android:imeOptions="actionNext"/>
 <requestFocus />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/TextView04"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@+id/editDWt1"
    android:layout_marginTop="14dp"
    android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/textView3"
    android:ems="6"
    android:text="         Stone :"
    android:textColor="@color/background_material_dark"
    android:textSize="15sp" />

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/editStWt1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/TextView04"
    android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/TextView04"
    android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/editDWt1"
    android:background="@color/bright_foreground_inverse_material_light"
    android:ems="4"
    android:hint="Weight"
    android:inputType="numberDecimal"
    android:nextFocusForward="@+id/editStRate1"
    android:imeOptions="actionNext" />
 <requestFocus />
  <TextView
     android:id="@+id/TextView05"
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/TextView04"
     android:layout_below="@+id/editStRate1"
     android:layout_marginTop="14dp"
     android:ems="6"
     android:text="         Stone :"
     android:textColor="@color/background_material_dark"
     android:textSize="15sp" />


</RelativeLayout>

</ScrollView>

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score 1 · Answer 15 · edited Sep 27 '17 at 20:38

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If you want to use a multiline EditText with imeOptions, try:

android:inputType="textImeMultiLine"

edited Sep 27 '17 at 20:38

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answered Sep 27 '17 at 18:42

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score 1 · Answer 16 · answered May 07 '20 at 04:28

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Simple way :

Auto move cursor to next edittext
If edittext is last input -> hidden keyboard

Add this to edittext field in .xml file

android:inputType="textCapWords"

answered May 07 '20 at 04:28

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Kishore Reddy · Answer 17 · 2018-01-05T09:33:51.077

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Inside Edittext just arrange like this


<EditText
    android:id="@+id/editStWt1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:imeOptions="actionNext" //now its going to rightside/next field automatically
    ..........
    .......

</EditText>

edited Jan 05 '18 at 09:33

answered Jan 05 '18 at 09:24

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score 0 · Answer 18 · answered Jan 30 '20 at 09:03

If you have the element in scroll view then you can also solve this issue as :

<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputEditText
                android:id="@+id/ed_password"
                android:inputType="textPassword"
                android:focusable="true"
                android:imeOptions="actionNext"
                android:nextFocusDown="@id/ed_confirmPassword" />

and in your activity:

edPassword.setOnEditorActionListener(new EditText.OnEditorActionListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
            if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_NEXT) {
                focusOnView(scroll,edConfirmPassword);
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }
    });

public void focusOnView(ScrollView scrollView, EditText viewToScrollTo){
    scrollView.post(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            scrollView.smoothScrollTo(0, viewToScrollTo.getBottom());
            viewToScrollTo.requestFocus();
        }
    });
}

Move to another EditText when Soft Keyboard Next is clicked on Android

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