Android: Force EditText to remove focus? [duplicate]

Question

I would like to be able to remove the focus from the EditText. For example if the Keyboard appears, and the user hides it with the back button, I would like the focus and the cursor to disappear. How can it be done?

Propylaeum

Is there any other view that can be focused after EditText? – Evictee

Is it possible to focus a WebView? – Propylaeum

See my answer here: #3890533 – Junkman

check dis out.. #1555609 – Headrail

one line code https://mcmap.net/q/81897/-how-to-remove-focus-from-single-edittext – Lysenko

for removing the cursor from edit text editText.setCursorVisible(false); – Olivine

Answer 1

You can add this to onCreate and it will hide the keyboard every time the Activity starts.

You can also programmatically change the focus to another item.

 this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

Gallard

Works on M Preview. Thank you – Grisons

how do you do this on a DialogFragment? – Wang

@Wang If you have a text field inside your DialogFragment, exactly the same. – Gayn

To guys like me who first skipped the comments under the question itself : @AmritpalSingh has a more elegant way (using only XML attributes) to achieve this. Check it out ! – Kasey

to re-gain the focus, use this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_VISIBLE); and editText.requestFocus(); – Parma

android:focusableInTouchMode="true" for parent layout – Bomar

beware, this requires an a window container, doesn't work inside a custom view – Clandestine

Answer 2

You can make cursor and focus disappear by

edittext.clearFocus();

But detect when the key board hide is a hard work.

Graehl

clearFocus() does not work. – Hereld

It works, but it sets the focus back to the first focusable view in the activity, so if you have only one view in the activity you may think it doesn't, but it does work, you have to understand its behavior :) – Laurettelauri

How do I go about returning the focus to the EditText? I've tried using .requestFocus(); but this doesn't seem to work. Thanks in advance. – Fluoric

I have a few apps, in those where I'm using a fragment, clearFocus() works, in those where I just have 1 activity it doesn't work, the focus just jumps to the first editText. – Stony

If anyone else is struggling to get this to work, if you add android:focusable="true" and android:focusableInTouchMode="true" to the root Layout of your activity or fragment, this changes the focus to the Layout instead of the EditText. – Chancemedley

this works. but i had to manully hide the keyboard as well – Plasticity

Answer 3

Add LinearLayout before EditText in your XML.

<LinearLayout 
    android:focusable="true"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true" 
    android:clickable="true"
    android:layout_width="0px"
    android:layout_height="0px" />

Or you can do this same thing by adding these lines to view before your 'EditText'.

<Button
    android:id="@+id/btnSearch"
    android:layout_width="50dp"
    android:layout_height="50dp"
    android:focusable="true"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:text="Quick Search"
    android:textColor="#fff"
    android:textSize="13sp"
    android:textStyle="bold" />

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/edtSearch"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    android:layout_marginRight="5dp"
    android:gravity="left"
    android:hint="Name"
    android:maxLines="1"
    android:singleLine="true"
    android:textColorHint="@color/blue"
    android:textSize="13sp"
    android:textStyle="bold" />

Sophiasophie

I liked this solution used in combination with a .clearFocus() on my EditText (which was the first focusable item in the layout, so clearFocus() didn't work on its own). Spoofing the LinearLayout to be focusable is a simple and easy solution. Nice work Singh Arjun :) – Crackpot

You'll only need to use android:focusableInTouchMode="true" because setting this to true will also ensure that this view is focusable. – Billowy

only add android:focusableInTouchMode="true" – Gervais

I don't know why but for this work I should use android:layout_width="1dp" android:layout_height="1dp" – Lard

Answer 4

Remove focus but remain focusable:

editText.setFocusableInTouchMode(false);
editText.setFocusable(false);
editText.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
editText.setFocusable(true);

EditText will lose focus, but can gain it again on a new touch event.

Isom

This seems to shift the focus to the next focusable view, rather than removing the focus from the edit text. It seems like Android doesn't ever want to be "unfocused"; I opted to make the root layout focusable / focusableInTouchMode in my project for this reason. It makes semantic sense as well: when you don't want to be focusing on the particular edit text, setting the focus to the root layout is akin to taking a step back and focusing on the full activity / fragment instead of the particular view. – Coumarin

Thanks for a simple trick!!! Worked perfectly – Isoleucine

Only solution that works for me – Buck

Worked for me, Thanks – Reconvert

You can try clearFocus – Moleskin

If you do this inside the EditText's onFocusChangeListener, on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) it will yield a stack overflow (crash). – Sunbreak

Answer 5

Add these two properties to your parent layout (ex: Linear Layout, Relative Layout)

android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true" 

It will do the trick :)

Downey

Best solution, works without adding new View. Thanks – Balladry

What is the underlying logic behind this – Clarisaclarise

Dont wonder. Android sometimes does wonders that it's own creators dont understand. – Hereld

Should be on top. – Shoestring

@UtsavGupta the underlying (and unpredictable) logic/behavior is that when the focus is lost from a view, android will set it to the “first” view that supports it, in the view hierarchy. – Aili

Very Simple solution, you earned my vote up – Forensic

this one worked. thanks – Sprig

So simple, so good. Keyboard is hidden and all the views work as expected when clicking into them. Thank you. – Lorri

Answer 6

remove autofocus edittext android

It's working for me

Edit In the link they suggest to use LinearLayout, but simple View will work

<View
    android:id="@+id/focus_thief"
    android:layout_width="1dp"
    android:layout_height="1dp"
    android:focusable="true"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true" />

Then if this "thief" is placed at the top of the layout (to be first focusable item) calls to clearFocus() will work.

Hygienist

While this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference. – Decapod

It is not required to add a separate "focus_thief" view if you have any other view in your layout that will take the android:focusable="true" & android:focusableInTouchMode="true"parameters. Just add those to the view above (if you have one) instead. – Shulins

Answer 7

You can also include android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden" in your manifest action section.

This is equivalent to :

this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

but in XML way.

FYI, you can also hide the keyboard with codes:

// hide virtual keyboard
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(mYourEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);

Aksum

And when you'll ineveitablly want to hide it, you'll have to do this https://mcmap.net/q/81898/-set-focus-on-edittext – Cabana

Answer 8

To hide the keyboard when activity starts.. write the following code in onCreate()..

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)
getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getWindow().getDecorView().getWindowToken(), 0);

To clear focus and remove cursor from edittext.....

editText.clearFocus();

editText.setCursorVisible(false);

Owenism

Note: for editText.clearFocus(); to work you need to add android:focusableInTouchMode="true" android:focusable="true" to the root layout – Amaty

Answer 9

try to use this one on your view it worked for me:

<View
    android:id="@+id/fucused"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:focusable="true"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"/>

Chronister

I can't believe how terrible is the focus management in Android, after trying different possible solutions until the point I was frustrated, this comment was the only option that works flawlessly... just adding a simple View on the xml does the trick (obviously you set the focus to that view when you want to remove from other) Thank you.. – Gelderland

"fucused", exactly! :D – Chadd

I’d say more like Fuckused but… yeah. – Aili

None of the solutions worked for me except this one. My SearchView was within a fragment and first view at the top of the view group hence it was taken focus no wonder what I try. – Anuria

Answer 10

Add to your parent layout where did you put your EditText this android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

Inesita

This trick works for me. In case the view is the first EditText it seems clearFocus() clears its focus but then starts searching for a focus candidate through the view tree and then finds out the same view. And the result is the same. But if you put android:focusableInTouchMode the focus traversal ends up on its parent. – Croissant

this worked for me , thanks – Brackely

so simple, so effective. thanks – Pippin

Answer 11

you have to remove <requestFocus/>

if you don't use it and still the same problem

user LinearLayout as a parent and set

android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

Hope it's help you.

Savona

Answer 12

This is my very first answer on SO, so don't be too harsh on me if there are mistakes. :D

There are few answers floating around the SO, but I feel the urge to post my complete solution cause this drove me nuts. I've grabbed bits and pieces from all around so forgive me if I don't give respective credits to everyone... :)

(I'll simplify my result cause my view has too many elements and I don't wanna spam with that and will try to make it as generic as possible...)

For your layout you need a parent your EditText and parent view defined something like this:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
              android:orientation="vertical"
              android:layout_width="match_parent" 
              android:layout_height="match_parent"
              android:id="@+id/lytContainer"
              android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
              android:focusableInTouchMode="true">
<EditText android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
              android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
              android:id="@+id/etEditor"
              android:inputType="number"
              android:layout_gravity="center" 
              android:hint="@string/enter_your_text"
              android:textColor="@android:color/darker_gray" 
              android:textSize="12dp"
              android:textAlignment="center" 
              android:gravity="center" 
              android:clickable="true"/>
</LinearLayout>

So, I needed a few things here. I needed to have a Placeholder for my EditText - which is that -

android:hint="hint"

Also,

android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

made it happen for EditText not to be focused on entering the Activity and later on in the Activity itself when setting it this setting helps so you can set onTouchListener on it to steal the focus away from EditText.

Now, in the Activity:

package com.at.keyboardhide;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.WindowManager;
import android.view.View.OnTouchListener;
import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;

public class MainActivity extends Activity implements OnTouchListener{
private EditText getEditText;
private LinearLayout getLinearLayout;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(
            WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

    setContentView(R.layout.keyboardmain);
    getEditText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.etEditor);
    getLinearLayout = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.lytContainer);
    getLinearLayout.setOnTouchListener(this);

    getEditText.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
            if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE) {
                Log.d("EDTA", "text was entered.");
                getEditText.clearFocus();
                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(barcodeNo.getWindowToken(), 0);
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }
    });
}
@Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
    if(v==getLinearLayout){
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);
        getEditText.clearFocus();
        return true;
        }
    return false;
    }
}

Few of the answers for bits I found on this question page, and the part with the Activity solution I found on this blog. The rest I missed which I had to figure out myself was clearing focus on the EditText which I added to both inside the setOnEditorActionListener and onTouchLister for the parent view.

Hope this helps someone and saves their time. :)

Cheers, Z.

Funds

android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants" android:focusableInTouchMode="true" Worked for me Thank you very much – Footling

@Footling Glad I could be of help. :) – Funds

Answer 13

In the comments you asked if another view can be focused instead of the EditText. Yes it can. Use .requestFocus() method for the view you want to be focused at the beginning (in onCreate() method)

Also focusing other view will cut out some amount of code. (code for hiding the keyboard for example)

Ret

Answer 14

I had the same problem. It made me more than crazy.

I had an extended Dialog with a ScrollView that had a TableLayout with extended LinearLayout that contained a SeekBar and a EditText.

The first EditText had always autofocus after showing the Dialog and after finishing editing the text over the keyboard the EditText still had the focus and the keyboard was still visible.

I tried nearly all solutions of this thread and none worked for me.

So here my simple solution: (text = EditText)

text.setOnEditorActionListener( new OnEditorActionListener( ){
    public boolean onEditorAction( TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event ){
        if( (event != null && event.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER) ||
            (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE) ){
            text.clearFocus( );
            InputMethodManager iMgr = null;
            iMgr = (InputMethodManager)mContext.getSystemService( Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE );
            iMgr.hideSoftInputFromWindow( text.getWindowToken(), 0 );
        }
        return true;
    }
});

By the way I didn't used any of the following snippets to solve it:

//setFocusableInTouchMode( true )
//setFocusable( true )
//setDescendantFocusability( ViewGroup.FOCUS_BEFORE_DESCENDANTS )

AND I didn't used a spacer item like a View with width and height of 1dp.

Hopefully it helps someone :D

Butyrate

what is this? ^^ :) I will try all other solutions on StackOverFlow before trying this code. – Erlindaerline

This is a working solutions (for me) and I wanted to share it, because as I've written: "It made me more than crazy." Have fun by trying ALL other solutions, which are sometimes more complicated than mine by using wrappers or not needed functions and at the end they didn't worked for me. – Butyrate

It's fine if it worked for you, I solved it with android:focusable="true" android:focusableInTouchMode="true" in the parent RelativeLayout. – Erlindaerline

This answer totally worked for me, removing focus of editText AND closing keyboard. I do have android:focusable="true" and android:focusableInTouchMode="true" on parent layout though Haven't tried without them, just happy that it works after two days shouting and trying everything under the sun. Stupid Android editText. – Shuttering

Answer 15

You can also include android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden" in your manifest action section.

This is equivalent to:

this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

Okwu

Answer 16

editText.setFocusableInTouchMode(true)

The EditText will be able to get the focus when the user touch it. When the main layout (activity, dialog, etc.) becomes visible the EditText doesn't automatically get the focus even though it is the first view in the layout.

Toneytong

That didn't work for me. – Circassia

Answer 17

You can avoid any focus on your elements by setting the attribute android:descendantFocusability of the parent element.

Here is an example:

<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="@+id/search__scroller"
android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true" >
</ScrollView>

Here, the attribute android:descendantFocusability set to "blocksDescendants" is blocking the focus on the child elements.

You can find more info here.

Priapus

You should use android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants" android:focusable="true" android:focusableInTouchMode="true" on the ScrollView's child – Shawana

Thanks for alternate... :) – Footling

Answer 18

check your xml file
 <EditText
            android:id="@+id/editText1"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:textSize="14sp" >

            **<requestFocus />**
 </EditText>


//Remove  **<requestFocus />** from xml

Luxembourg