EditText focus in a ListView

Question

I have a ListView and in that ListView I have a Row with some TextViews and EditTexts in it. When I press anywhere on the row I want the EditText to take focus so text can be entered.

The problem is that I cannot get this to work. When i place the EditText in the ListView the OnItemClick will not respond when I click on the ListView.

I tried using focusable="false" on the EditText and it allowed me to click on the ListView again but I could not get the EditText to get focus even after setting the focusable to true. Next I tried using the android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants" in the ListView but it did not seem to make any change, it still wouldn't work.

Does anyone have an idea on what I can do to make it work?

Possible duplicate of Focusable EditText inside ListView

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2013-10-31 23:40:23 +00:00
Commented Oct 31, 2013 at 23:40 — blahdiblah
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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:15:20Z

Try this, it should let you click on a line and focus the EditText (modified from this SO Answer):

public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> listView, View view, int position, long id) { EditText yourEditText = (EditText) view.findViewById(R.id.youredittextid); listView.setDescendantFocusability(ViewGroup.FOCUS_AFTER_DESCENDANTS); yourEditText.requestFocus(); } public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> listView) { // onNothingSelected happens when you start scrolling, so we need to prevent it from staying // in the afterDescendants mode if the EditText was focused listView.setDescendantFocusability(ViewGroup.FOCUS_BEFORE_DESCENDANTS); }

sunil · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-10 13:29:00Z

do like this

ListView listView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.yourListViewId); listView.setItemsCanFocus(true); listView.setClickable(false);

ie,

after getting the listview object from xml, disable the click on this listview and pass the focus to the child views

Some one Some where · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-10 13:26:11Z

you can add a property as enabled="false" in the xml row layout, and on the onItemClickListener you can setEnabled(true) and then setFocusable(true) , this should solve it.

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