How to set focus on editText Preference and show keyboard automatically?

Question

I am learning the Preferences and I have created this

After clicking on EditText I am getting this

What I am trying to do is this.

The keybord and focus on edittext only shows when I click on it. I want it automatically when I click on EditText(This is editxText).

here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8991522/how-can-i-set-the-focus-and-display-the-keyboard-on-my-edittext-programmatical — Hoàng Vũ Anh, Jan 10 '20 at 07:11

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 10 '20 at 07:17

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You can write like this :

    EditText editText = findViewById(R.id.textViewId);
    editText.requestFocus();
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.showSoftInput(editText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);

answered Jan 10 '20 at 07:17

Nensi Kasundra

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It is an EditText Preference, not an edit text, I can not access it by its id bcz it does not have an id, it has a key – Vivek Verma Jan 10 '20 at 12:23

Zain · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-10T07:36:26.340

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in your preference fragment that extends from PreferenceFragmentCompat override onResume() with below

@Override
public void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    Preference search = findPreference(getString(R.string.setting_edit_text_key));
    search.performClick();
}

Illustration: you inflate the EditTextPreference using its key, and perform a click on it.

edited Jan 10 '20 at 07:36

answered Jan 10 '20 at 07:30

Zain

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One thing, there is no method named as performClick(). You have to use setOnPrefernceClickListener()\ – Vivek Verma Jan 10 '20 at 15:57
Hi @VivekVerma it seems that you are using `Preference` from `android.preference` package instead of `android.support.v7.preference package`; `performClick()` is available at the later one – Zain Jan 10 '20 at 17:44

How to set focus on editText Preference and show keyboard automatically?

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