I have a ListView with a few EditTexts in each item. I have no issues with a hardware keyboard, but things freak out a bit with the soft keyboard. I have two issues.
- When I first click on an EditText, it briefly appears to have focus but then loses focus once the keyboard has shown. I must then click the EditText again to get focus.
- When an EditText with focus is scrolled out of view, focus goes to... well... see the screenshot. I'm not sure what's happening.
More details on #1:
- When the screen first loads, focus is in the "Gr High School Scale" field, but the keyboard is not shown.
- If I immediately click on a desired EditText, its
OnFocusChangeListener
tells me that it receives focus and then loses focus. Visually, I see the cursor appear in the field, but when the keyboard loads the cursor jumps away (like in the screenshot) and I don't know where focus has gone.
I've played around a bit the Focusable and DescendantFocusability attributes of the ListView, but to no avail. Any advice?
Each time an EditText with focus gets scrolled out of view, another drunk cursor shows up:
UPDATE: Relevant code.
Activity layout with ListView XML:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.NsouthProductions.gradetrackerpro"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
tools:context="com.NsouthProductions.gradetrackerpro.Activity_EditCourseGPA" >
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginTop="34dp"
android:text="Define the GPA and Percent scale for this course." />
<RadioGroup
android:id="@+id/radioGroup1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_below="@+id/textView1"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dp" >
<LinearLayout
android:id="@+id/linlay_rad_group_existing_scale"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<RadioButton
android:id="@+id/radio0_existing_scale"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0"
android:checked="true"
android:text="Existing Scale" />
<Spinner
android:id="@+id/spinner_existing_scales"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="33dp"
android:layout_gravity="right"
android:layout_weight="1" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="@+id/linlay_rad_group_new_scale"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<RadioButton
android:id="@+id/radio1_new_scale"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0"
android:text="New Scale" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView2"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:lines="1"
android:maxLines="1"
android:text=" " />
<EditText
android:id="@+id/editText1"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:inputType="textPersonName"
android:maxLines="1"
android:scrollHorizontally="true"
android:text="Gr High School Scale" >
<requestFocus />
</EditText>
</LinearLayout>
</RadioGroup>
<LinearLayout
android:id="@+id/linlay_scale_save_buttons"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" >
<Button
android:id="@+id/btn_gpa_cancel"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Button" />
<Button
android:id="@+id/btn_gpa_save"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Button" />
</LinearLayout>
<ListView
android:id="@+id/listview_scale"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_above="@id/linlay_scale_save_buttons"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_below="@id/radioGroup1"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:headerDividersEnabled="true"
android:scrollingCache="true" >
</ListView>
List Items XML:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/linlay_scale_list_item"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<CheckBox
android:id="@+id/checkbox_scale_item"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="A-" />
<EditText
android:id="@+id/et_gpa"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:enabled="true"
android:inputType="numberDecimal"
android:maxLength="6"
android:text="4.000" />
<EditText
android:id="@+id/et_min"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:enabled="true"
android:inputType="numberDecimal"
android:maxLength="6"
android:text="94.75" />
<EditText
android:id="@+id/et_max"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:inputType="numberDecimal"
android:maxLength="6"
android:text="100.0" />
Setting the view in my adapter:
View v = convertView;
ViewHolder holder;
v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.scale_list_item,
holder = new ViewHolder();
holder.cb = (CheckBox) v.findViewById(R.id.checkbox_scale_item);
holder.et_gpa = (EditText) v.findViewById(R.id.et_gpa);
holder.et_min = (EditText) v.findViewById(R.id.et_min);
holder.et_max = (EditText) v.findViewById(R.id.et_max);
I'm not sure what else to post. I have focus and textChange listeners, but the problem exists even if those are commented out. Let me know if anything else is needed. Thank you.
More detail about how focus is behaving when the EditText is touched:
- The EditText is clicked (touched)
- EditText Receives focus
- EditText loses focus
- ListView gains focus (and tries to set child focus view
requestChildFocus
... doesn't seem to succeed). - ListView loses focus
- ListView gains focus (and tries to set child focus again).
The above is based on having listeners for both the EditText and the ListView. Note: with a hardware keyboard, the EditText gets focus and that's that. I think the soft keyboard appearing affects the focus.
FINAL UPDATE: In the end, working with the ListView was too difficult, especially because I wanted to update multiple rows based on changes to an EditText in one row. That's hard to do when the keyboard is up and the ListView only considers a few of the rows to exist at any one time.
I instead made nested LinearLayouts. Each horizontal layout was a "row" and I put them inside of an ArrayList in order to manage them and it was a piece of cake, comparatively (still not easy).