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When an Activity opens I need to set focus on one of two edit texts and automatically open the softkey pad so the user can just start typing. How can this be done?

Code Droid
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  • I know its easier to click the minus button than answer but we need more constructive feedback. – Code Droid Jul 11 '12 at 21:44
  • Can someone else please + this so we don't get too negative! – Code Droid Jul 11 '12 at 21:45
  • If this is how you participate perhaps a SOCIAL network is not the right place.... I mean let us know what the pain point is. I really see nothing wrong with the question. – Code Droid Jul 11 '12 at 21:49
  • Look below to see social collaboration in action. – Code Droid Jul 11 '12 at 21:51
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    Not sure how you get to the conclusion that [this is a social networking site](http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/65261/is-stack-overflow-a-social-networking-site). What's wrong with this question? You don't show any research effort *(this has been answered often before)* or any attempt to solve this on your own. I guess if you don't do research on your problem, you won't check the meaning of downvotes either. See the downvote tooltip. And after you posted a lazy question, you complain that people pick the lazy option "downvote and move on"? I find that funny. –  Jul 11 '12 at 22:25
  • It might not be the definition of a social network, but the point is that is people centered to solve (technical) problems. – Code Droid Jul 11 '12 at 22:51
  • Maybe, that's kind of subjective. Anyway the other issues are still there, so when it comes to beeing social: If you do people a favor and write a good question, people are more likely to do you a favor and actually help you. Waste their time with stuff that can be googled and they react like this. –  Jul 11 '12 at 22:54
  • The waste of time is an illusion on your part. No ones time is wasted but perhaps mine and others is saved. An old answer to a question is not necessarily what people are looking for. Have you not heard of deprecation or backward compatibility issues. – Code Droid Jul 11 '12 at 23:02
  • deprecation you have probably heard of ... – Code Droid Jul 11 '12 at 23:03
  • Lovely. I'm completely sure that there are no compatibility issues in place and so on. Why did you even ask for an explanation when you didn't want to hear it anyway? I wonder why I even leave these comments - that was certainly a waste of time. –  Jul 11 '12 at 23:10

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In the xml for the layout, add <requestFocus /> under the EditText you want focused.

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