Preventing/catching “IllegalArgumentException: par

Question

I have a ListView with some focusable components inside (mostly EditTexts). Yeah, I know this isn't exactly recommended, but in general, almost everything is working fine and the focus goes where it has to go (with a few tweaks I had to code). Anyway, my problem is that there's a weird race condition when scrolling the list with your finger and then suddenly using the trackball when the IME keyboard is being displayed. Something must go out of bounds and get recycled at which point the offsetRectBetweenParentAndChild() method must kick in and throw the IllegalArgumentException.

The problem is that this exception is thrown outside of any block in which I can insert a try/catch (as far as I know). So there are two valid solutions to this question, either:

1. Someone knows why this exception being thrown and how to stop it from happening
2. Someone knows how to put a try/catch block somewhere that will at least let my application survive. As far as I know the problem is that of focus, so it definitely shouldn't kill my application (which is what it's doing). I tried overriding the ViewGroup's methods but those two offset* methods are marked as final.

Stack trace:

08-17 18:23:09.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1608): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
08-17 18:23:09.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1608): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: parameter must be a descendant of this view
08-17 18:23:09.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1608):     at android.view.ViewGroup.offsetRectBetweenParentAndChild(ViewGroup.java:2633)
08-17 18:23:09.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1608):     at android.view.ViewGroup.offsetDescendantRectToMyCoords(ViewGroup.java:2570)
08-17 18:23:09.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1608):     at android.view.ViewRoot.scrollToRectOrFocus(ViewRoot.java:1624)
08-17 18:23:09.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1608):     at android.view.ViewRoot.draw(ViewRoot.java:1357)
08-17 18:23:09.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1608):     at android.view.ViewRoot.performTraversals(ViewRoot.java:1258)
08-17 18:23:09.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1608):     at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1859)
08-17 18:23:09.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1608):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
08-17 18:23:09.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1608):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
08-17 18:23:09.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1608):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
08-17 18:23:09.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1608):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
08-17 18:23:09.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1608):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
08-17 18:23:09.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1608):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
08-17 18:23:09.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1608):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
08-17 18:23:09.825: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1608):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Answer 1

In case of Expandable List View, if your child items have edit text then you need to change the focusability before descendants for Expandable List View

expandableListView.setDescendantFocusability(ViewGroup.FOCUS_BEFORE_DESCENDANTS);

Answer 2

I faced that problem, too, and the solution by validcat worked for me, but I had to call getWindow().getCurrentFocus().clearFocus().

Answer 3

I have the simplest but not good solution. Just extend the NestedScrollView and override onSizeChanged method, add a try catch block.

public class FixFocusErrorNestedScrollView extends NestedScrollView {

    public FixFocusErrorNestedScrollView(@NonNull Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh) {
        try {
            super.onSizeChanged(w, h, oldw, oldh);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

In my case, I have tow layer view, top layer is listView, bottom is NestedScrollView. The error is happend when I switch the layer. The focus be taked by ListeView item (button).

So I can't make button lose focus. Then the best solution is extends NestedScrollView.

Answer 4

I faced with the same problem and found out this solution - in OnGroupCollapseListener/OnGroupExpandListener and OnScrollListener for ExpandableListView i clear focuse and hide forced keyboard. Also do not forget to set in manifest for your activity windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan":

    expListView.setOnGroupCollapseListener(new OnGroupCollapseListener() {

        @Override
        public void onGroupCollapse(int groupPosition) {
            InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            if (getWindow().getCurrentFocus() != null) {
                inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
                getCurrentFocus().clearFocus();
            }
        }
    });

    expListView.setOnGroupExpandListener(new OnGroupExpandListener() {

        @Override
        public void onGroupExpand(int groupPosition) {
            InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            if (getWindow().getCurrentFocus() != null) {
                inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
                getCurrentFocus().clearFocus();
            }
        }
    });

    expListView.setOnScrollListener(new OnScrollListener() {

        @Override
        public void onScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view, int scrollState) {
            InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            if (getCurrentFocus() != null) {
                inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
                getCurrentFocus().clearFocus();
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void onScroll(AbsListView view, int firstVisibleItem, int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount) {}

    });

I don't know exactly OnGroupExpandListener is needed or no, it could be useless.

Answer 5

try this

 @Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
    //abandon current focus
    View currentFocus = ((Activity)mContext).getCurrentFocus();
    if (currentFocus != null) {
        currentFocus.clearFocus();
    }

    // other code
}

EDIT:

See also: Better Solution

Answer 6

In my case it was related to windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan", listView and editText on list element (header view).

In order to fix that I call hide soft keyboard method before activity is finished.

public void hideKeyboard(Activity activity) {
    InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    View focusView = activity.getCurrentFocus();
    if (focusView != null) {
        inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(focusView.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
    }
}