EditText, clear focus on touch outside

Question

My layout contains ListView, SurfaceView and EditText. When I click on the EditText, it receives focus and the on-screen keyboard pops up. When I click somewhere outside of the EditText, it still has the focus (it shouldn't). I guess I could set up OnTouchListener's on the other views in layout and manually clear the EditText's focus. But seems too hackish...

I also have the same situation in the other layout - list view with different types of items, some of which have EditText's inside. They act just like I wrote above.

The task is to make EditText lose focus when user touches something outside of it.

I've seen similar questions here, but haven't found any solution...

Answer 1

Just put these properties in the top most parent.

android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:clickable="true"
android:focusable="true" 

Answer 2

You've probably found the answer to this problem already but I've been looking on how to solve this and still can't really find exactly what I was looking for so I figured I'd post it here.

What I did was the following (this is very generalized, purpose is to give you an idea of how to proceed, copying and pasting all the code will not work O:D ):

First have the EditText and any other views you want in your program wrapped by a single view. In my case I used a LinearLayout to wrap everything.

<LinearLayout 
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:id="@+id/mainLinearLayout">
 <EditText
  android:id="@+id/editText"/>
 <ImageView
  android:id="@+id/imageView"/>
 <TextView
  android:id="@+id/textView"/>
 </LinearLayout>

Then in your code you have to set a Touch Listener to your main LinearLayout.

final EditText searchEditText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText);
mainLinearLayout.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {

        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            if(searchEditText.isFocused()){
                if(event.getY() >= 72){
                    //Will only enter this if the EditText already has focus
                    //And if a touch event happens outside of the EditText
                    //Which in my case is at the top of my layout
                    //and 72 pixels long
                    searchEditText.clearFocus();
                    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) v.getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), 0);
                }
            }
            Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Clicked", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            return false;
        }
    });

I hope this helps some people. Or at least helps them start solving their problem.