Selecting an Android EditView's text when it gets focus?

Question

I have a view that contains a number of EditViews. When one is selected, I want all of its text to be selected, rather than just having the edit cursor appear. What I try is this:

EditText E = new EditText(this);
E.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);
E.setImeOptions(EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE);
E.setText("Some Text");

E.setOnFocusChangeListener(
    new OnFocusChangeListener()
    {
        @Override
        public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
            if (hasFocus)
            {
                // Set the selection to the entire text
                EditText E2 = (EditText) v;
                E2.setSelection(0, E2.getText().length());
            }
        }
    }
);

When I select an EditText, onFocusChange is being called with hasFocus = true, but the text is not being selected; instead, the edit cursor appears as it usually does.

Also, when I include this line before the setSelection call:

E2.setText("Changed");

it sets the text to "Changed" successfully, but still doesn't select the text.

Also, if I use setSelected immediately after the initial E.setText call, the text in the EditText that has the initial focus is selected.

How do I select an EditView's text within an onFocusChangeListener.onFocusChange call?

try using this functiion : setSelectAllOnFocus (boolean selectAllOnFocus) check out this examples : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4669464/select-all-text-inside-edittext-when-it-gets-focus — Itzik Samara, Jul 26 '14 at 16:27
Sorry not for any obvious reason ..just came out like that really.. — Itzik Samara, Jul 26 '14 at 16:42

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 26 '14 at 16:44

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Question answered by Itzik Samara ("use setSelectAllOnFocus(boolean)") in the comment to the original question - this was added so the question could be flagged as answered

answered Jul 26 '14 at 16:44

Don Del Grande

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 26 '14 at 16:55

You can do three things here:

If you prefer to do this programatically:

1) You can call setSelectAllOnFocus(Boolean) before you call the OnFocusChangeListener(), eg:

E.setSelectAllOnFocus(true);

2) Inside the hasFocus conditional, you can say

E.selectAll();

If you would rather use your XML Layout :

3) You can apply setSelectAllOnFocus on your EditText field in your layout, like:

android:selectAllOnFocus="true"

Hope that helps !

Selecting an Android EditView's text when it gets focus?

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