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How to keep edittext focus when click other view or decide whether to change focus status before lose focus?

In my fragment, I have a layout contain several button, and this layout will change format when I focus and lose focus on editText.
here are images:
The problem is when editText is focused, I click those button or try to scroll the layout that contain buttons, editText lose focus directly, this make me can't scroll view also(because layout become not focus status).
And I don't want to use requestFocus at editTexts' onFocusChange, this will make other problem for me(like the soft keyboard will close and open again every time i click button, I want soft keyboard keep open and editText keep focus).
Is there any method to keep my editText focus? thanks.

Android: Make EditText empty when new value

I Want to make my EditText empty when you put a new value. If I use a onClickListener I need first to focus and then to click (Double click), if I use onFocusChangeListener it is already deleting when click another EditText.
Does someone know a other way to achieve this (When first click == empty)?
Thanks in advance!

Don't make things complicated. Simply set android:selectAllOnFocus="true" to your EditText. So, when the user types-in some text and later click the text box, all the text inside will be highlighted - allowing user to type-in new text from scratch.

Android change in view - Button state gets reset

I have a button which is basically used for start/stop. So initially the text of the button is set to start. I attached a OnClickListener to it. So whenever it gets clicked i change its text. So if it was start it become stop and vice-versa.
The problem comes when i change my phone view from portrait to landscape or vice-versa the button text gets reset.
So for example I clicked the start button---it changed to stop. Now if I tilt my phone to change the view the button text gets set to start again.
Am I using the button in a wrong way?

You should save your button state. When screen orientation changes, onCreate is called and all your app variables are re-intitialized. Read more here http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html

No, you are using the button in the right way.
The thing what you are seeing is "configuration change". When you are tilting your device, Android recreating your activity and recreating all it's views (so, they getting default captions as them described in XML).
You need to do the
disable configuration changes for your Activity. To do so, add the following to your manifest's activity tag: android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden". It is not suitable, if you have different layouts for landscape and portraint orientations, when you need to...
handle the configuration changes by overriding onSaveInsatnceState method of your Activity, save a state there and then use it in onCreate method.
See this article for further explanation

Can I show up the textbox editor on an image icon in Android?

all,
We know on Andorid, for a EditText, by default, whenever the EditText is clicked, the soft keyboard pops up to let you enter text. When you click DONE, it closes out and put the text directly to the EditText.
Now, what I am trying to do is, instead of an EditText, I have an ImageView which is to let user enter some comment.(So the ImageView actually is an comment icon). I wish whenever the icon is clicked, it pops up the text editor with user previous entered text, again once the DONE is hit, it closes out and I can save whatever text there back to a string member of the Activity. Is that possible?
So far, all I've seen about InputMethodManager is on EditText control, If it is too complicated, I probably just put an EditText into a sperate Activity.
Thanks.

There are many solutions:
One is to use custom dialog: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html#CustomDialog
Second one is to use a transparent activity on top of that one.
Then you could use FrameLayout and insert another view in an exact position...
I think you should try the frist or second one. Every ImageView can be easily converted into a button by adding onClick event to it.

Android Row becomes Unclickable with Button

I have a listView, where each row has a button in the row layout. However, this seems to make the row itself unclickable. How can I make both the button and row clickable?
Thanks.

You need to set itemsCanFocus on the list like this:
mList.setItemsCanFocus(true);
To make the button clickable. Then you will need to use your own adapter and in getView return a view which is Clickable and focusable. You will also lose the default highlight states so you need to put them back in with the background resource. So do this:
view.setClickable(true);
view.setFocusable(true);
view.setBackgroundResource(android.R.drawable.menuitem_background);
to your view before returning your view.

Whenever I see posts concerning the android:focusable and android:clickable attributes, I always see them being both set to the same value at once. I figured there must be a reason if they are two separate attributes instead of being one.
It turns out that a much better way of achieving your desired behavior is to set
android:focusable="false"
or
yourButton.setFocusable(false)
on the Button in your View. Once you do that, you'll be both able to set an OnClickListener on the Button, and a click on the row will fire the onListItemClick() method in your OnItemClickListener.

Try to set your widgets to non clickable and non focusable in xml,the click on items will work normally and also the click on button will work normally.
android:clickable="false"
android:focusable="false"
Hope this helps.

Unfortunately I don't think that is possible. You ListView row can either have focusable widgets, like a button, or be clickable, not both. See link.