Custom Listview with EditText: Focus

Question

I have a simple layout with EditText and a Listview. Implemented custom ArrayList adapter to fill in the listview and custom filter so user can search for items displayed in the listview.

When I run the application, the focus is initially set to EditText and the keyboard is displayed as expected. But here is what I want to do:

The focus should be initially set to ListView when the app is launched.
If the user wants to enter text by selecting edittext control, then the keyboard should appear.
( At this point as the user inputs text, the listview items will change - I already implmented this)
With the keyboard still open, if the user select an item in the listview, the keyboard should disappear and trigger the listview onItemClick function.

How can I accomplish this?

this link may help you http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5056734/android-force-edittext-to-remove-focus — koti, Oct 31 '12 at 07:12
Related: [Focusable EditText inside ListView](http://stackoverflow.com/q/2679948) — blahdiblah, Oct 31 '13 at 23:47

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 31 '12 at 07:10

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1.Add below attribute to your particular EditText in its layout-xml:

android:focusable="false"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

2.Then in your Activity add:

mEditText.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
        v.setFocusable(true);
        return false;
    }
});

Hope this helps.

answered Oct 31 '12 at 07:10

Gagan

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Thank you. With above solution the EditText is not getting focus at all. Unable to click on it and get the Keyboard. – user1787709 Oct 31 '12 at 16:16

Custom Listview with EditText: Focus

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