What I want to do: I am having an activity that is creating an AlertDialog, this activity is introducing programmatically and edittext to the AlertDialog. I want to ensure that such edittext is focused and the keyboards appears.
There are a lot of threads in SO where good explanations appears of how to perform that (like this Android TextField : set focus + soft input programmatically) when the view is creating using layout (and so, you have and id).
However, there are several rules, specially, you can't focus a view until it has been layour in the screen.
So what is happening to me is that, I create the edittext programmatically, afterwards I show the dialog and afterwards I am not able to access to my view as it has not ID (can't use findviewbyid).
So, how can I requestfocus and display the keyboard on a Edittext created programmatically in an AlertDialog?
I am showing here the pice of code (removing for simplicity the possitive button and negative button):
final EditText input = new EditText(getApplicationContext());
input.setLayoutParams(new TableLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
input.setGravity(Gravity.LEFT);
input.setImeOptions(EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE);
input.setText(current_name);
input.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);
input.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);
input.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
input.requestFocus();
AlertDialog EditDialog =new AlertDialog.Builder(this)
//set message, title, and icon
.setTitle(title_id)
.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_launcher_blue2)
.setView(input)
What I would like to do is that when my EditDialog is laid out in the screen I can request the focus on input and show the keyboard.
