requestFocus not working

Question

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:padding="20dp" >

    <AutoCompleteTextView
        android:id="@+id/autocomplete_zone"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:dropDownVerticalOffset="0.2dp"
        android:ems="10"
        android:hint="@string/zone_hint"
        android:inputType="text"
        android:lines="1"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:popupBackground="#00ffffff"
        android:textColor="#ffffff"
        android:textColorHint="#ffffff" >

        <requestFocus />
    </AutoCompleteTextView>

    <ProgressBar
        android:id="@+id/progressBar1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@id/autocomplete_zone"
        android:layout_alignRight="@id/autocomplete_zone"
        android:layout_alignTop="@id/autocomplete_zone"
        android:paddingBottom="5dp"
        android:visibility="invisible" />
</RelativeLayout>

In the above markup

<requestFocus />

does not work. The text view is not focused when the activity is started. Is this because of the progress bar which overlays the text view? Any ideas how to fix this?

Solution 1

Solved it! In manifest I added following to the activity:

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible"

Solution 2

I usually use the following to set the focus: Add following attributs to your xml-layout

<AutoCompleteTextView 
    android:focusable="true" 
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"> 
</AutoCompleteTextView>

and set focus programmatically like

((AutoCompleteTextView) findViewById(R.autocomplete_zone)).requestFocus();

f.e. in onResume or onWindowChanged

public void onWindowFocusChanged(boolean hasFocus) {
    super.onWindowFocusChanged(hasFocus);

    if (hasFocus) {
        ((AutoCompleteTextView) findViewById(R.autocomplete_zone)).requestFocus();
    }
}

Solution 3

None of the above worked for me... this is what I used

txtView.getParent().requestChildFocus(txtView,txtView);

Solution 4

To do this in code, in your Activity:

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_VISIBLE);

Solution 5

You can try this in the code if you want to forcefully show the keyboard.

((InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY);

then you can to use this code to close the keyboard:

((InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).hideSoftInputFromWindow(autocomplete_zone.getWindowToken(), 0);

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Comments

[DSlomer64]

Sorta confused about the down vote... and the edit... Did the edit make the Answer OK? Maybe ignore the Answer?

[JFreeman]

Thank you very much! I had the same problem and this was the only solution that worked.

[JFreeman]

This seems like a good answer, and based upon logic it should work but it does not. Instead i found that Evan Parsons solution was the only one that worked for me... why would that be?