Stop Scrollview from Setting Focus on Edittext

Stop ScrollView from setting focus on EditText

This works. Not sure if it's the best solution or not.

// SCROLL VIEW HACK
    // BOGUS
    ScrollView view = (ScrollView)findViewById(R.id.scrollView);
    view.setDescendantFocusability(ViewGroup.FOCUS_BEFORE_DESCENDANTS);
    view.setFocusable(true);
    view.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
    view.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            v.requestFocusFromTouch();
            return false;
        }
    });

ScrollView disable focus move

Just thought I'd share my solution to this. Even though some of the other answer's comments state that you cannot override this behavior, that is not true. This behavior stops as soon as you override the onRequestFocusInDescendants() method. So simply create your ScrollView extension to do this:

public class NonFocusingScrollView extends ScrollView {

  public NonFocusingScrollView(Context context) {
    super(context);
  }

  public NonFocusingScrollView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
  }

  public NonFocusingScrollView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);
  }

  @Override
  protected boolean onRequestFocusInDescendants(int direction, Rect previouslyFocusedRect) {
    return true;
  }

}

And you're done. The ScrollView will mess with your focus no more.

Remove Focus While Scrolling Multiline EditText

I found a solution (only works on short texts). You can use the ScrollView onScrollChange event.
This is how I did it:

ScrollView scroll = findViewById(R.id.scrollView1);
    scroll.setOnScrollChangeListener(new View.OnScrollChangeListener() {
        @Override
        public void onScrollChange(View view, int i, int i1, int i2, int i3) {
            et.clearFocus();
        }
    });

The variable et is an EditText object.

How to disable default scroll behavior of an EditText?

Set your EditText's height to wrap_content so it expands instead of scrolling. Set your LinearLayout's height to wrap_content so it's the size of its contents, i.e. the TextView and EditText.

The ScrollView should be whatever height you want for your "window" into the contents layout, the LinearLayout that moves up and down "behind" the ScrollView.

The scrolling happens if that contents layout is too big to display in the visible ScrollView, which is why that contents layout should always be wrap_content (the size of the contents) and never match_parent (the size of the scroll view "window"). If the contents are always the same size as the scroll view, they'll never need to scroll, right?

RecyclerView: Disable scrolling caused by change in focus

I ended up with this solution from @pskink:

recylerView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(this) {
    @Override
    public boolean requestChildRectangleOnScreen(RecyclerView parent, View child, Rect rect, boolean immediate) {
        return false;
    }
});

It seems to work perfectly, but @pskink has mentioned that this could have problems when using arrow keys. He's posted another solution here: https://pastebin.com/8JLSMkF7. If you have problems with the above solution, you may try the alternative solution at the link. For now, I'm sticking with the one I just posted here.

UPDATE

Since support-library v25.3.0 you should also override another requestChildRectangleOnScreen method in LayoutManager:

@Override
public boolean requestChildRectangleOnScreen(RecyclerView parent, View child, Rect rect, boolean immediate, boolean focusedChildVisible) {
    return false;
}

How to stop EditText from gaining focus when an activity starts in Android?

Adding the tags android:focusableInTouchMode="true" and android:focusable="true" to the parent layout (e.g. LinearLayout or ConstraintLayout) like in the following example, will fix the problem.

<!-- Dummy item to prevent AutoCompleteTextView from receiving focus -->
<LinearLayout
    android:focusable="true" 
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
    android:layout_width="0px" 
    android:layout_height="0px"/>

<!-- :nextFocusUp and :nextFocusLeft have been set to the id of this component
to prevent the dummy from receiving focus again -->
<AutoCompleteTextView android:id="@+id/autotext"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:nextFocusUp="@id/autotext" 
    android:nextFocusLeft="@id/autotext"/>

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