How to clear focus for EditText?

Question

I have an activity with a search box (EditText) on the top, and a ListView below. Whenever the activity starts, the EditText always has focus and bring up the keyboard which partially cover the ListView.

There's no other text view that can have focus. I want the EditText to have focus ONLY when the user touches it and start typing. I try to put clearFocus() in onCreateView, onViewCreated or onCreated, but no luck.

Ajay S · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-02T16:23:59.997

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Set in your parent layout next attributes:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/mainLayout"
    android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true" >

And now, when activity starts this layout getting default focus.

Also we can remove focus from children views in runtime (e.g. after finishing child editing):

findViewById(R.id.mainLayout).requestFocus();

or

Look in the AndroidManifest.xml element.

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

It always hide key board when entering the activity.

edited Jun 02 '14 at 16:23

answered Jan 20 '13 at 12:47

Ajay S

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So many good & quick answer, but this one is the simplest to me. Tks all – EyeQ Tech Jan 20 '13 at 13:31
I've tried SO MANY other suggested solutions to this problem and THIS is the which WORKS!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! – Deven Phillips Feb 21 '13 at 04:31
For me android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants" works as I have many edit text in that screen.I have to clear focus from all edit text and request focus to another view .But thanks for this reference . – Rishabh Bhardwaj May 06 '15 at 05:43
Thanks for `android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"`. It was just what I needed. – Mir-Ismaili Feb 22 '17 at 13:14
absolutely lovely – JustSightseeing Feb 26 '22 at 19:36

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 26 '17 at 09:19

You could use set focus on container view. Add to container android:focusableInTouchMode="true", android:focusable="true" and tag requestFocus example:

<RelativeLayout
    android:id="@+id/container"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
    android:focusable="true">
    <requestFocus/>

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/edit_text_id"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</RelativeLayout>

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 20 '13 at 12:46

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you must have mentioned <requestFocus> tag in your editTiext field in XML remove that and run again

answered Jan 20 '13 at 12:46

Usman Kurd

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score 4 · Answer 4 · edited Oct 24 '17 at 12:29

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You can try this:

editText.clearFocus();

where ever you want to clear focus.

edited Oct 24 '17 at 12:29

Ajay Makwana

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answered Oct 24 '17 at 11:56

Zia Ansari

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this will not work if you have multi editText in a view, this is just an example that will break this approach, I also have to mention that behaviour is different in different phones, but I can see that this solution has some problems – Masoud Darzi Jan 24 '21 at 14:49

score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Apr 12 '23 at 16:24

Add the android:focusable="true" and android:focusableInTouchMode="true" elements in the parent layout of EditText as follow;

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:id="@+id/linearLayout7" 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:focusable="true" 
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true">

I think, it should help you.

score 0 · Answer 6 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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Here is the answer EditText, clear focus on touch outside.

Or you can just write widget which will show only text with textView and onClickwill display dialog with EditText where you can edit this text/

edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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answered Jan 20 '13 at 12:48

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score -1 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 20 '13 at 12:46

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Try this

On your Activity Declaration in AndroidManifest.xml add the below code :

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

It will prevent the keyboard to popup up when activity becomes visible.

Happy coding :)

answered Jan 20 '13 at 12:46

moDev

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score -3 · Answer 8 · edited Mar 26 '14 at 19:06

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This will do your work:

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

edited Mar 26 '14 at 19:06

lucian.pantelimon

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answered Mar 26 '14 at 18:39

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