Stop EditText from gaining focus at Activity startup

Samuel Fernandes 2432 23 Apr 2015

I have an Android Activity, with two elements:

1.EditText

2.ListView

When my Activity starts, the EditText immediately has input focus (flashing cursor). I don't want any control to have input focus at startup. I tried:

EditText.setSelected(false);

No luck. How can I convince the EditText to not select itself when the Activity starts?

1 Answers

Anonymous User 23 Apr 2015 Accepted Answer

<!-- Dummy item to prevent AutoCompleteTextView from receiving focus -->
<LinearLayout
    android:focusable="true" android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
    android:layout_width="0px" android:layout_height="0px"/>
<!-- :nextFocusUp and :nextFocusLeft have been set to the id of this component
     to prevent the dummy from receiving focus again -->
<AutoCompleteTextView android:id="@+id/autotext"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:nextFocusUp="@id/autotext" android:nextFocusLeft="@id/autotext"/>

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