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cain
cain

Reputation: 1048

Default Focus and Keyboard to EditText in Android AlertDialog

I am using the AlertDialog.Builder in Android to quickly prompt the user for text. The dialog shows up and works great, but the user must click on the EditText field to load the soft keyboard. Is there any way to open the keyboard and give focus to the whenever my dialog is opened? Here is my code:

final Map<String,Object> rowData = itemList.get(mPosition);
                    final EditText input = new EditText(searchList.getContext());
                input.requestFocus();


                input.setSingleLine();
                final AlertDialog dialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(searchList.getContext())
                .setTitle(StringUtils.getSafeString(rowData.get("label")))
                .setView(input)
                .setPositiveButton("Ok", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) { 
                        rowData.put("value", StringUtils.getSafeString(input.getText()));
                        searchList.invalidateViews();

                    }
                }).setNegativeButton("Cancel", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
                        // Do nothing.
                    }
                }).create();
                dialog.show();

Upvotes: 27

Views: 20068

Answers (7)

Sumit
Sumit

Reputation: 1122

I tried above all solutions but none of them worked for me. After reading a lot, finaly discovered the root cause of this, I realize that I don't need to use any workarounds (for me).

by default a dialog is in focusable mode and EditText were not getting focus, so i manually remove focus.

window?.clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE or WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM)

Upvotes: 0

Afshin Izadi
Afshin Izadi

Reputation: 526

Well if the keyboard is not appearing even by editText.requestFocus() that means the window is not focused, make sure that the window is focused

Example for a dialog box, make sure you didn't add this flag to the dialog object, remove these lines if you have it

cdd.getWindow().
            setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE,
                    WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE);

and add this

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

and then editTextName.requestFocus(); will work well.

Upvotes: 0

Mayank
Mayank

Reputation: 8852

in your XML layout

call

<requestFocus/>

inside your default EditText

<EditText 
android:blabla
.... >
<requestFocus/>
</EditText>

Upvotes: 5

Jetti Madhu
Jetti Madhu

Reputation: 1068

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED,0); For hiding keyboard use:

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(),0);

or try below code but you must set the requestFocus() or to your edittext

editText.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
    @Override
    public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
        if (hasFocus) {
            dialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
        }
    }
});

Upvotes: 1

Benni Zw&#246;lfer
Benni Zw&#246;lfer

Reputation: 11

use a custom view if you need it more often

public class RequestFocusEditText extends AppCompatEditText {
    private RequestFocusEditText self;

    public RequestFocusEditText(final Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        this.self = this;

        setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {
            @Override
            public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
                post(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                    InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                    inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(self, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
                }
            });
        }
    });
    requestFocus();
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

RightHandedMonkey
RightHandedMonkey

Reputation: 1728

Hidden keyboard when programmatically setting focus on an EditText in an Android Dialog.

I had this problem as well and it was a pretty simple fix - here is my suggested solution. Although it worked on DialogFragments for me, I see no reason why it wouldn't work in your case.

Basically the soft keyboard isn't triggered because the view is being created programmatically. The actual fix was simply putting this line in the onCreateDialog method:

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

From the Android documentation on DialogFragments:

If the user focuses on an EditText, the soft keyboard will automatically appear. In order to force this to happen with our programmatic focus, we call getDialog().getWindow().setSoftInputMode(). Note that many Window operations you might have done previously in a Dialog can still be done in a DialogFragment, but you have to call getDialog().getWindow() instead of just getWindow().

@Override
public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    //setup your dialog builder and inflate the view you want here
    ...
    //Make sure your EditText has the focus when the dialog is displayed
    edit.requestFocus();
    //Create the dialog and save to a variable, so we can set the keyboard state
    Dialog dialog = builder.create();
    //now, set to show the keyboard automatically
    dialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_VISIBLE);
    return dialog;
}

Upvotes: 22

Ahamed
Ahamed

Reputation: 39695

Use the following code. It worked for me.

    editText.setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {
        @Override
        public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
            editText.post(new Runnable() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    InputMethodManager inputMethodManager= (InputMethodManager) YourActivity.this.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                    inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(editText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
                }
            });
        }
    });
    editText.requestFocus();

Upvotes: 57

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