My application keeps crashing when I type something in a EditText, but this does not happen always only in some cases. I am running my app on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 WiFI & 3G (GT-P5100) with Android 4.0.4 (ICS). I use the stock Keyboard.
This is my logcat:
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): java.lang.IllegalStateException: focus search returned a view that wasn't able to take focus!
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at android.widget.TextView.onKeyUp(TextView.java:5833)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at android.view.KeyEvent.dispatch(KeyEvent.java:2659)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at android.view.View.dispatchKeyEvent(View.java:5547)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchKeyEvent(ViewGroup.java:1246)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchKeyEvent(ViewGroup.java:1246)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchKeyEvent(ViewGroup.java:1246)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchKeyEvent(ViewGroup.java:1246)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchKeyEvent(ViewGroup.java:1246)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchKeyEvent(ViewGroup.java:1246)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.superDispatchKeyEvent(PhoneWindow.java:2027)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.superDispatchKeyEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1388)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at android.app.Activity.dispatchKeyEvent(Activity.java:2324)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.dispatchKeyEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1954)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at android.view.ViewRootImpl.deliverKeyEventPostIme(ViewRootImpl.java:3360)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at android.view.ViewRootImpl.handleMessage(ViewRootImpl.java:2618)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4514)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:790)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:557)
11-28 21:43:01.007: E/AndroidRuntime(15540): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
This is my one of my EditTexts:
<EditText
android:id="@+id/input_ftu_position_other"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="64dp"
android:ems="20"
android:inputType="text" />
This error occurs when the ImeOptions is set to
EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_NEXT
orEditorInfo.IME_ACTION_PREVIOUS
. While the parent of that view is not focusable, or the next found focus object is not focusable.It calls to find the next focus item that should be quickly jumped to but this does not exist or isn't focusable, it throws this error. It will happen if the next is hidden and thus not focusable or the parent cannot actually deal with the findFocus() call and returns null.
The solution thusly is rather easy. Don't set it to IME_ACTION as next in this case. If you can't quickly jump from text field to text field then either make that doable or switch the action to being DONE.
Note the comment in the code before the offending bit:
It won't do this if you set the edittext type or if you give an explicit IME that isn't functionally wrong. Or have a parent object that is focusable on the next or anything else. It's only legacy code in a fallback bit that might sometimes not have the given action as possible.
None of previous answers worked for me. I was having editText in recyclerview and the next editText couldn't receive focus when it was not in view.
I checked for the cause of the problem and it was this in TextView class:
I update my editText to listen for any editor actions and did this:
I have another solution, to trace TextView source codes and match the error log you provided
TextView.java :
As a result, I think you could give View.OnClickListener to avoid the error happened.
ex: textView.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener);
I was having this same crash and although it doesn't sound like the exact situation, perhaps this will still be helpful:
I had two EditText boxes. The bottom one was the Next Focus Down of the top one. In some situations I would hide the bottom box, so when I hit next on the keyboard from the top box, it would try to go the bottom one, but would crash since it was hidden. I fixed this by setting the bottom box (the target of another EditText's Next Down Focus) as not focusable:
I hope this helps.
I had this problem and fixed it like this:
I believe this may be a device bug, e.g.: