Give EditText focus without showing the soft input

Asked Jun 24 '22 at 13:50

Active Jun 27 '22 at 10:57

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I have an EditText configured in the following way because I have a custom keyboard to display:

    binding.editText.showSoftInputOnFocus = false

It works alright but I want to give the focus to the field when I load the screen, so I'm doing the following in my onStart method:

    binding.editText.requestFocus()

When I do this the default keyboard unfortunately shows and hide my custom keyboard. How to give the focus to the EditText without showing the soft input?

edited Jun 27 '22 at 10:57

asked Jun 24 '22 at 13:50

lorenzo

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what is the point of textfiled focus w/o IME? – Marcin Orlowski Jun 24 '22 at 13:52
I have a custom keyboard, first line: "I have an EditText configured in the following way because I have a custom keyboard to display:" – lorenzo Jun 24 '22 at 13:54
Custom mean in-app something? Then why you need EditText and not TextView? – Marcin Orlowski Jun 24 '22 at 15:57
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I want to have a cursor when the user edit the text – lorenzo Jun 24 '22 at 17:14

Give EditText focus without showing the soft input

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