EditText focus method not working as expected in android

Question

I have a button "show" and when the button is clicked , the edit text box must not be editable and when I click next, I must give back the focus to edit text box. I tried the below code

  showans.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
               editText.setFocusable(false);
     }
  next.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            editText.setFocusable(true);
            editText.setClickable(true);
      }
 }

I tried changing values between setFocusable and setClickable but nothing helped. When I click the showans button for the first time, the edit box loses focus and its not clickable though I set the value to true when I click the "next" button and all these buttons .All these text boxes and buttons are dynamically generated.Any help would be great !! Thanks

No I just want to mention this. I don't have any problems because of that @AbhishekPatel — Anusha, May 24 '16 at 11:17
You can use setEnabled() method to completely disable or enable the edittext view. — Malith Lakshan, May 24 '16 at 11:20

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 24 '16 at 14:47

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You can use

editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL); for uneditable EditText

and

editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT) 

to make it editable

edited May 24 '16 at 14:47

Uniruddh

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answered May 24 '16 at 11:25

Navin Gupta

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Arshid KV · Answer 2 · 2016-05-24T11:19:01.593

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Please change to editText.requestFocus();

You can use editText.clearFocus();

edited May 24 '16 at 11:19

answered May 24 '16 at 11:17

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Where am I suppose to add this ? when the next button is clicked ?@Arshid KV – Anusha May 24 '16 at 11:18
No its not working – Anusha May 24 '16 at 11:19
You can use `editText.clearFocus()` – Arshid KV May 24 '16 at 11:20
Where Am i supposed to add this – Anusha May 24 '16 at 11:21

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 24 '16 at 11:25

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You can use setEnabled() method to disable or enable the editText

//to disable
editText.setEnabled(false);
//to re enable
editText.setEnabled(true);

answered May 24 '16 at 11:25

Malith Lakshan

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 24 '16 at 11:29

You could try using setFocusableInTouchMode - so your code will change to something like this:

showans.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
               editText.setFocusable(false);
               editText.setFocusableInTouchMode(false);
     }
  next.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            editText.setFocusable(true);
            editText.setClickable(true);
            editText.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
      }
 }

Give this a try and let me know if it helps.

EditText focus method not working as expected in android

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