How to set focus to editText when fragment start?

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When MyFgment appear in screen, I want to set cursor focus on EditText in MyFragment automatically. I've tried EditText.requestFocus(), but it doesn't focus on EditText. How can I do??

Use Edittext edittext = view.findViewById(R.id.your_id); then if(!edittext.getfocus()) edittext.requestFocus()/ edittext.setFocus(true); — Ranjeet Chouhan, Mar 13 '20 at 05:53

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 13 '20 at 07:04

editText.requestFocus() will put focus to your View if it is focusable . But I guess you want to show keyboard when it is focused. If I am right then the following code might work for you.

editText.requestFocus();
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY);

The code is from this post. You can also check Android Developers for details.

Neither requestFocus() not setFocusable working for me at all. — Kalpana Aneyrao, Apr 09 '21 at 07:31

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 13 '20 at 06:14

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set this in your xml

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

and you can set this on onViewCreated program editText.isFocusableInTouchMode(); editText.setFocusable(true);

answered Mar 13 '20 at 06:14

Amit pandey

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 13 '20 at 05:56

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Add these lines from class,

EditText.isFocusableInTouchMode();
EditText.setFocusable(true); 
EditText.requestFocus();

or add these attributes in layout,

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

answered Mar 13 '20 at 05:56

Rashiq

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 03 '22 at 21:35

Add this kotlin extension function

fun EditText.focus() {
    text?.let { setSelection(it.length) }
    postDelayed({
        requestFocus()
        val imm = context.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
        imm.showSoftInput(this, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT)
    }, 200)
}

and call it on your EditText in onViewCreated.

How to set focus to editText when fragment start?

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