Stop ScrollView from setting focus on EditText

Question

Android's ScrollView (when scrolled or fling'd) likes to set the focus of an EditText when it's one of it's children. It happens when you scroll and then release. Is there anyway to stop this behavior? I've tried nearly everything I can think of and everything I've read on StackOverflow. Nothing has worked for me. Below is an example layout If you'd like to test it out. I'm desperate to stop this dumb behavior.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>

<ScrollView 
    android:id="@+id/scrollView"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    >

<LinearLayout 
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:layout_marginRight="50dp"
    android:focusable="true"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
    >

    <EditText 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="100dp" 
        android:text="TestApp 1"
        />


    <Button 
        android:id="@+id/btn"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:text="TestApp 1"
        />

    <Button 
        android:id="@+id/btn"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:text="TestApp 1"
        />

    <Button 
        android:id="@+id/btn"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:text="TestApp 1"
        />

    <EditText 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="100dp" 
        android:text="Bleh...."
        />

    <Button 
        android:id="@+id/btn"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:text="TestApp 1"
        />
    <EditText 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="100dp" 
        android:text="TestApp 1"
        />


    <Button 
        android:id="@+id/btn"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:text="TestApp 1"
        />

    <Button 
        android:id="@+id/btn"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:text="MeeEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
        />

    <Button 
        android:id="@+id/btn"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:text="TestApp 1"
        />



</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

This works. Not sure if it's the best solution or not.

// SCROLL VIEW HACK
    // BOGUS
    ScrollView view = (ScrollView)findViewById(R.id.scrollView);
    view.setDescendantFocusability(ViewGroup.FOCUS_BEFORE_DESCENDANTS);
    view.setFocusable(true);
    view.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
    view.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            v.requestFocusFromTouch();
            return false;
        }
    });

Answer 2

First, you can remove the parent of the ScrollView. Second, add focus options for the child(only one child per ScrollView):

android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

This is how your xml should look like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/scrollView"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" >

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_marginRight="50dp"
        android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
        android:focusable="true"
        android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
        android:orientation="vertical" >

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/editText_one"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="100dp"
            android:text="TestApp 1" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btn_one"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="TestApp 1" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btn_two"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="TestApp 1" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btn_three"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="TestApp 1" />

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/editText_two"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="100dp"
            android:text="Bleh...." />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btn_four"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="TestApp 1" />

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/editText_three"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="100dp"
            android:text="TestApp 1" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btn_five"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="TestApp 1" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btn_six"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="MeeEEEEEEEEEEEEE" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btn_seven"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="TestApp 1" />
    </LinearLayout>

</ScrollView>

Also, notice that you have multiple id's with the same name. Try giving them unique names.

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If you want only to hide the soft-keyboard, and let the EditText still have it's focus, you can do this by adding the following property to your activity in manifest:

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

Answer 3

ah it is very late. But I still want to add this solution to help newbies like me.

ScrollView sv = (ScrollView)findViewById(R.id.scrollView);
sv.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            sv.clearFocus();
            return false;
        }
    });

yes it works, just set a listener to clearfocus. and it is better than ing requestFocusFromTouch to another view 'x', which will lead to the same problem-- srolling to the view 'x'.