How to Do Something After User Clicks on My Edittext

How to do something after user clicks on my EditText

Unlike most other controls, EditTexts are focusable while the system is in 'touch mode'. The first click event focuses the control, while the second click event actually fires the OnClickListener. If you disable touch-mode focus with the android:focusableInTouchMode View attribute, the OnClickListener should fire as expected.

<EditText
        android:text="@+id/EditText01"
        android:id="@+id/EditText01"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:focusableInTouchMode="false" />

When the edit text is clicked how to set a value in edit screen of edittext then user can change it

Implement OnTouchListener on your EditText & set/append text on MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN.

A better way to OnClick for EditText fields?

In General

You can achieve what you want to do via a combination of onFocus and clearing the text field, similar to what the two commenters under your post already suggested. A solution would look like this:

EditText myEditText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.myEditText);
myEditText.setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {
        
    @Override
    public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
        if (hasFocus) {
        // Always use a TextKeyListener when clearing a TextView to prevent android
        // warnings in the log
        TextKeyListener.clear((myEditText).getText());
                
        }
    }
});

Please always use a TextKeyListener to "clean" EditText, you can avoid a lot of android warnings in the log this way.

But...

I would much rather recommend you to simply set the following in your xml:

<EditText android:selectAllOnFocus="true"/>

Like described here. This way your user has a much better UI-feeling to it, he or she can decide on his/her own what to do with the text and won't be annoyed because it clears out every time!

android edittext remove focus after clicking a button

Put this in your button listener:

InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); 

inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(),InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);

EDIT

The solution above will break your app if no EditText is focused on. Modify your code like this:

add this method to you class:

public static void hideSoftKeyboard (Activity activity, View view) 
{
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getApplicationWindowToken(), 0);
}

Then, in your button listener, call the method like this:

hideSoftKeyboard(MainActivity.this, v); // MainActivity is the name of the class and v is the View parameter used in the button listener method onClick.

EditText inside TextInputLayout onclick requires 2 click ?! Android

Set the attribute android:focusableInTouchMode to false

android:focusableInTouchMode="false"

in your edittext xml code.

---

Explanation, as from docs, android:focusableInTouchMode is:

Boolean that controls whether a view can take focus while in touch
mode. If this is true for a view, that view can gain focus when
clicked on, and can keep focus if another view is clicked on that
doesn't have this attribute set to true.

and the EditText is true by default.

In other words: the first click will make the edittext to gain focus and second click is the one that triggers the ClickListener. So you should disable gaining focus on touch.

Edittext click event focus

Set the EditText to unFocusable. That way the first touch registers as a click.

In your XML for the EditText(s) in question add:

 android:focusableInTouchMode="false"

---

Related Topics