clearFocus() on empty editText is not working in Android

Question

I tried to remove focus from empty editText but it isn't working correctly. I called clearFocus() on edittext ,and then I placed break point at my onFocusChanged() function call.

Here is what happened: onFocusChanged() called 4 times with the focused parameters values false,true,false,true.

What I thought was that onFocusChanged() must be called only once (with focused = false)

Sorry for my bad English. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

try [this](http://stackoverflow.com/a/15481511/5909692) – matejko219 Sep 28 '16 at 13:45 — matejko219, Sep 28 '16 at 13:45

score 25 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 10 '19 at 07:50

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In xml, make parent layout

  android:focusable="true"
  android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

and then call clearFocus on edit text and then call parent request focus

 mFragmentBase.editText.clearFocus();
 mFragmentBase.parentLayout.requestFocus();

answered Jul 10 '19 at 07:50

Alok Gupta

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This worked perfectly. I couldn't get my edittext's focus to clear but when requesting parentLayout focus after, it worked! Thanks – DIRTY DAVE Dec 28 '21 at 17:20

score 24 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 28 '16 at 13:48

This is happening because your EditText is the first focusable view.

From the docs,

Note: When a View clears focus the framework is trying to give focus to the first focusable View from the top. Hence, if this View is the first from the top that can take focus, then all callbacks related to clearing focus will be invoked after which the framework will give focus to this view.

You can try setting a dummy focusable view above the EditText to clear the focus from it.

lpizzinidev · Answer 3 · 2021-05-20T15:57:28.423

Instead of clearing the focus from EditText create an empty view at the top of the layout

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/focusableLayout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:focusable="true"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"/>

and declare a utility function to hide the keyboard like this

fun hideKeyboard(activity: Activity) {
    val inputMethodManager = activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager 
    inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(activity.currentFocus?.windowToken, 0)
}

Finally when you need to clear focus just call

focusableLayout.requestFocus()
hideKeyboard(currentActivity)

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clearFocus() on empty editText is not working in Android

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