Edit text isn't being focused on

Question

I was testing my app that has an edit text on my phone and worked fine. However, once I connected to another device which is running android 5.1 I believe, the app is not letting me type anything on the edit text. Is there anyway to fix this?

Answer 1

Check to see that you have a reasonable value in your Manifest for the activity android:windowSoftInputMode. For instance try stateVisible.

Answer 2

try putting this in your onCreate

editText.requestFocus();

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