Android – problem with Android requestFocus()

androidandroid-edittext

The below is the piece of code that i have written for transferring the focus from one edit text to another, but the problem that i got with this implementation is, the focus moves to the particular edit text, and suddenly moves to the next edit text.So, i could not able to enter anything , since the focus is not at all staying that particular edit text ..

//some code comes here
// gun_pistolNotes and gun_pistolModel are two diff. editText
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    gun_pistolNotes.setOnEditorActionListener(new OnEditorActionListener(){
    @Override
    public boolean onEditorAction(TextView view,int actionId, KeyEvent event){
    if(actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_UNSPECIFIED){
        gun_pistolModel.requestFocus(); // moves to this edittext and suddenly moves to another editext 
        return true;
    }
    return false;
    }
  });

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//some code comes here

Any Help is Appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Best Answer

I realise this is an old question, but I was facing a similar issue & after hours of frustration, I found the problem, so just thought I should post it here in case someone else needs it.

In my code I realised that for some reason specifying android:inputype on my edittext was causing this "jumping" behaviour. So if I have EditText1 with android:inputType="textCapSentences" in the XML, calling requestFocus() on EditText1 causes it to get highlighted briefly before moving focus onto the next view.

I am not sure if this is a bug within Android or if it is indeed something else that I am missing. I tried setting inputType programmatically & within various points in my code, with setInputType() but it did not work for me. So for now I have just removed the inputType attribute & requestFocus() works as it should.

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