EditText in Listview loses focus when pressed on Android 4.x

A classic hack for situations like this is to use a handler and postDelayed(). In your adapter:

private int lastFocussedPosition = -1;private Handler handler = new Handler();public View getView(final int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {    // ...    edittext.setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {        @Override        public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {            if (hasFocus) {                handler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {                    @Override                    public void run() {                        if (lastFocussedPosition == -1 || lastFocussedPosition == position) {                            lastFocussedPosition = position;                            edittext.requestFocus();                        }                    }                }, 200);            } else {                lastFocussedPosition = -1;            }        }    });    return convertView;}

This works on my device, but keep this code out of production. I also wouldn't be surprised if the focus bug manifests itself differently in different android versions or roms.

There are also many other problems with embedding an EditText within a ListView that have solutions that feel like a hack. See all of the other people struggling.

It's also very easy to have something like this happen:

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After having gone down similar paths many times myself, I've mostly given up on trying to override any of the default keyboard behaviours or quirks. I would recommend trying to find alternative solution in your app if possible.

Have you considered having the ListView rows be just a styled TextView and then displaying a Dialog with an EditText when a row is clicked, updating the TextView as necessary?

I was having problems with the ActionBar "stealing" focus when I pressed on an EditText located within a ListView row. The above solutions did not work, but the following solution worked for me:

http://www.mysamplecode.com/2013/02/android-edittext-listview-loses-focus.html

Basically I added this to my ListView:

android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"

and added this to my activity:

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"

Modify your manifest xml to add windowSoftInputMode in your activity:

<activity    android:name=".YourActivity"    android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"></activity>