How to set cursor position in EditText?

Question

There are two EditText,while loading the page a text is set in the first EditText, So now cursor will be in the starting place of EditText, I want to set cursor position in the second EditText which contains no data. How to do this?

Answer 1

setSelection(int index) method in Edittext should allow you to do this.

Answer 2

I want to set cursor position in edittext which contains no data

There is only one position in an empty EditText, it's setSeletion(0).

Or did you mean you want to get focus to your EditText when your activity opens? In that case its requestFocus()

Answer 3

If you want to place the cursor in a certain position on an EditText, you can use:

yourEditText.setSelection(position);

Additionally, there is the possibility to set the initial and final position, so that you programmatically select some text, this way:

yourEditText.setSelection(startPosition, endPosition);

Please note that setting the selection might be tricky since you can place the cursor before or after a character, the image below explains how to index works in this case:

So, if you want the cursor at the end of the text, just set it to yourEditText.length().

Answer 4

as a reminder: if you are using edittext.setSelection() to set the cursor, and it is NOT working while setting up an alertdialog for example, make sure to set the selection() AFTER the dialog has been created

example:

AlertDialog dialog = builder.show();
input.setSelection(x,y);

Answer 5

In Xml file android:paddingLeft:

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/txt_amount"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:paddingLeft="10dp"/>

i hope this help you

Answer 6

Where position is an int:

editText1.setSelection(position)