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Davide
Davide

Reputation: 127

cant type in an EditText android

I have this xml 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/horizontalPadding"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/horizontalPadding"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/verticalPadding"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/verticalPadding">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:gravity="center_vertical"
        android:padding="@dimen/padding" >

        <TextView
            android:text="@string/training_exercise_set_weight"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/training_exercise_set_weight"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:inputType="numberDecimal"
            android:ems="10" />

    </LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

When my app is running the keyboard is visible and clickable, but the value of editText doesn't change. how can i resolve it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3083

Answers (4)

Yodi S.
Yodi S.

Reputation: 118

For me, the problem was, I didn't let my PopupWindow be focused. Then I found out that my PopupWindow focusable was by default set to false. So, I try to add 1 new parameter that explicitly tells the PopupWindow is focusable. You can see it in my screenshot below. Previously I didn't pass the false value, only the first three values.

PopupWindow focusable

Now, I can type anything in the EditText. This one took a whole day to be resolved. 🤣

Upvotes: 0

Davide
Davide

Reputation: 127

If someone is interesed, i resolved using the EditText.requestFocus()

Upvotes: 1

frogatto
frogatto

Reputation: 29285

android:ems="10" is all about width of the view, however you are overriding this setting by layout_width property setting to match_parent.

It looks like you would want two EditTexts to be stretch equally and fill that LinearLayout, so here you wouldn't need ems at all. You would need maxLength instead.

Also note that to stretch those EditTexts you should set their widths to 0dp and set their weight to 1 (or something else. They should be equal).

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:gravity="center_vertical"
    android:padding="@dimen/padding" >

    <TextView
        android:text="@string/training_exercise_set_weight"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/training_exercise_set_weight"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:inputType="numberDecimal"
        android:maxLength="10" />

</LinearLayout>

Upvotes: 0

Dmytro Rostopira
Dmytro Rostopira

Reputation: 11185

Try to replace android:ems="10" with android:maxEms="10" or android:maxLength="10", I'm not sure, what you want to achieve with this parameter

Hope, this will solve you issue

Upvotes: 0

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