Edit Text in ListActivity ListView loses focus when keyboard comes up
All you really need to do is apply this to your ListView:
XML:
android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants"Java:
listView.setDescendantFocusability(ViewGroup.FOCUS_AFTER_DESCENDANTS);
For me a combination of the following helped me (especially number 3):
1) Add the following to the related Activity in the manifest file, this is required for your ListView to be resized to fill only the area above the softKeyboard:
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"2) With the below the ListView will ONLY get focus only if none of its descendants want it. The descendants (the EditText) needs to get and keep focus.
<ListView...android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants"/>3) The automatic showing/hiding of the Spelling Suggestions bar right above the keyboard keeps triggering the ListView to refresh. I turned the Suggestions off for any EditText in my ListView.
<EditText...android:inputType="textNoSuggestions|textVisiblePassword" />
In my case it perfect worked with adding this like of code to manifest:
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"