Move to another EditText when Soft Keyboard Next is clicked on Android

AndroidAndroid Edittext

Android Problem Overview

When I press the 'Next', the focus on the User EditText must be move to the Password. Then, from Password, it must move to the right and so on. Can you help me on how to code it?

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<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/LinearLayout01"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >
	
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/username"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="User Name*" />
	
    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/txt_User"
        android:layout_width="290dp"
        android:layout_height="33dp"
        android:singleLine="true" />

</LinearLayout>


<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/LinearLayout02"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >
	
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/password"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Password*" />
	
    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/txt_Password"
        android:layout_width="290dp"
        android:layout_height="33dp"
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:password="true" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/confirm"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Password*" />
	
    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/txt_Confirm"
        android:layout_width="290dp"
        android:layout_height="33dp"
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:password="true" />

</LinearLayout>

Android Solutions

Solution 1 - Android

Focus Handling

Focus movement is based on an algorithm which finds the nearest neighbor in a given direction. In rare cases, the default algorithm may not match the intended behavior of the developer.

Change default behaviour of directional navigation by using following XML attributes:

android:nextFocusDown="@+id/.."  
android:nextFocusLeft="@+id/.."    
android:nextFocusRight="@+id/.."    
android:nextFocusUp="@+id/.."

Besides directional navigation you can use tab navigation. For this you need to use

android:nextFocusForward="@+id/.."

To get a particular view to take focus, call

view.requestFocus()

To listen to certain changing focus events use a View.OnFocusChangeListener

Keyboard button

You can use android:imeOptions for handling that extra button on your keyboard.

> Additional features you can enable in an IME associated with an editor > to improve the integration with your application. The constants here > correspond to those defined by imeOptions.

The constants of imeOptions includes a variety of actions and flags, see the link above for their values.

Value example

ActionNext :

> the action key performs a "next" operation, taking the user to the > next field that will accept text.

ActionDone :

> the action key performs a "done" operation, typically meaning there is nothing more to input and the IME will be closed.

Code example:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity" >

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_marginLeft="32dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
        android:imeOptions="actionNext"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:ems="10" >

        <requestFocus />
    </EditText>

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/editText2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_below="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_marginTop="24dp"
        android:imeOptions="actionDone"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:ems="10" />

</RelativeLayout>

If you want to listen to imeoptions events use a TextView.OnEditorActionListener.

editText.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
        if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_SEARCH) {
            performSearch();
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
});

Solution 2 - Android

android:inputType="text"

should bring the same effect. After hiting next to bring the focus to the next element.

android:nextFocusDown="@+id/.."

use this in addition if you dont want the next view to get the focus

Solution 3 - Android

add your editText

android:imeOptions="actionNext"
android:singleLine="true"

add property to activity in manifest

    android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize|stateHidden"

in layout file ScrollView set as root or parent layout all ui

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    tools:context="com.ukuya.marketplace.activity.SignInActivity">

    <ScrollView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

       <!--your items-->

    </ScrollView>

</LinearLayout>

if you do not want every time it adds, create style: add style in values/style.xml

default/style:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
        <item name="editTextStyle">@style/AppTheme.CustomEditText</item>
    </style>

<style name="AppTheme.CustomEditText"     parent="android:style/Widget.EditText">
        //...
        <item name="android:imeOptions">actionNext</item>
        <item name="android:singleLine">true</item>
    </style>

Solution 4 - Android

Use the following line

android:nextFocusDown="@+id/parentedit"

parentedit is the ID of the next EditText to be focused.

The above line will also need the following line.

android:inputType="text"

or

android:inputType="number"

Thanks for the suggestion @Alexei Khlebnikov.

Solution 5 - Android

android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"
android:imeOptions="actionNext"
android:singleLine="true"
android:nextFocusForward="@+id/.."

Adding extra field

> android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"

worked in my case!

Solution 6 - Android

In your onEditorAction handler, keep in mind that you must return a boolean that indicates if you are handling the action (true) or if you applied some logic and want the normal behaviour (false), as in the following example:

EditText te = ...
te.setOnEditorActionListener(new OnEditorActionListener() {
	@Override
	public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event){
		if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_NEXT) {
	    	// Some logic here.
			return true; // Focus will do whatever you put in the logic.
    	}
		return false;  // Focus will change according to the actionId
	}
});

I found this when I returned true after performing my logic since focus did not move.

Solution 7 - Android

<AutoCompleteTextView
                android:id="@+id/email"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:drawableLeft="@drawable/user"
                android:hint="@string/username"
                android:inputType="text"
                android:maxLines="1"
                android:imeOptions="actionNext"
                android:singleLine="true" />

These three lines do the magic

            android:maxLines="1"
            android:imeOptions="actionNext"
            android:singleLine="true"

Solution 8 - Android

In Kotlin I have used Bellow like..

  1. xml:

    <EditText
  android:id="@+id/et_amount"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:imeOptions="actionNext"
  android:inputType="number"
  android:singleLine="true" />

  2. in kotlin:

    et_amount.setOnEditorActionListener { v, actionId, event ->

    if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_NEXT) {
        // do some code
        true
    } else {
        false
    }
}

Solution 9 - Android

Simple way, when you have just few fields one by one:

Need to set

android:maxLines="1"

android:imeOptions="actionNext"

android:inputType="" <- Set your type of text, in other case it will be Multiline and prevent to go next

Sample:

<EditText android:layout_width="match_parent"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              android:textSize="@dimen/text_large"
              android:maxLines="1"
              android:inputType="textEmailAddress"
              android:imeOptions="actionNext"
              android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/element_margin_large"
              android:layout_marginRight="@dimen/element_margin_large"
              android:layout_marginTop="0dp"/>

Solution 10 - Android

just use the following code it will work fine and use inputType for every edittext and the next button will appear in keyboard.

android:inputType="text" or android:inputType="number" etc

Solution 11 - Android

In some cases you may need to move the focus to the next field manually :

focusSearch(FOCUS_DOWN).requestFocus();

You might need this if, for example, you have a text field that opens a date picker on click, and you want the focus to automatically move to the next input field once a date is selected by the user and the picker closes. There's no way to handle this in XML, it has to be done programmatically.

Solution 12 - Android

Try Using android:imeOptions="actionNext" tag for every editText in the View it will automatically focus to the next edittext when you click on Next of the softKeyboard.

Solution 13 - Android

Add inputType to edittext and on enter it will go the next edittext

android:inputType="text"
android:inputType="textEmailAddress"
android:inputType="textPassword"

and many more.

> inputType=textMultiLine does not go to the next edittext on enter

Solution 14 - Android

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/ScrollView01"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fillViewport="true"
android:scrollbars="vertical" >

<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="666dp"
android:background="#1500FFe5"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" >
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/TextView02"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@+id/editGrWt"
    android:layout_marginTop="14dp"
    android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/textView3"
    android:ems="6"
    android:text="    Diamond :"
    android:textColor="@color/background_material_dark"
    android:textSize="15sp" />
  <EditText
    android:id="@+id/editDWt"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/TextView02"
    android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/editGrWt"
    android:background="@color/bright_foreground_inverse_material_light"
    android:ems="4"
    android:hint="Weight"
    android:inputType="numberDecimal"
    android:nextFocusLeft="@+id/editDRate"
    android:selectAllOnFocus="true"
    android:imeOptions="actionNext"
           
    />
 <requestFocus />


<TextView
    android:id="@+id/TextView03"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/TextView02"
    android:layout_below="@+id/TextView02"
    android:layout_marginTop="14dp"
    android:ems="6"
    android:text="    Diamond :"
    android:textColor="@color/background_material_dark"
    android:textSize="15sp" />

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/editDWt1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/TextView03"
    android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/TextView03"
    android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/editDWt"
    android:background="@color/bright_foreground_inverse_material_light"
    android:ems="4"
    android:hint="Weight"
    android:inputType="numberDecimal"
	android:text="0"
    android:selectAllOnFocus="true"
    android:imeOptions="actionNext"/>
 <requestFocus />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/TextView04"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@+id/editDWt1"
    android:layout_marginTop="14dp"
    android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/textView3"
    android:ems="6"
    android:text="         Stone :"
    android:textColor="@color/background_material_dark"
    android:textSize="15sp" />

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/editStWt1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/TextView04"
    android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/TextView04"
    android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/editDWt1"
    android:background="@color/bright_foreground_inverse_material_light"
    android:ems="4"
    android:hint="Weight"
    android:inputType="numberDecimal"
    android:nextFocusForward="@+id/editStRate1"
    android:imeOptions="actionNext" />
 <requestFocus />
  <TextView
     android:id="@+id/TextView05"
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/TextView04"
     android:layout_below="@+id/editStRate1"
     android:layout_marginTop="14dp"
     android:ems="6"
     android:text="         Stone :"
     android:textColor="@color/background_material_dark"
     android:textSize="15sp" />


</RelativeLayout>

</ScrollView>

Solution 15 - Android

If you want to use a multiline EditText with imeOptions, try:

android:inputType="textImeMultiLine"

Solution 16 - Android

Simple way :

  • Auto move cursor to next edittext
  • If edittext is last input -> hidden keyboard

Add this to edittext field in .xml file

android:inputType="textCapWords"

Solution 17 - Android

Inside Edittext just arrange like this


<EditText
    android:id="@+id/editStWt1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:imeOptions="actionNext" //now its going to rightside/next field automatically
    ..........
    .......

</EditText>

Solution 18 - Android

If you have the element in scroll view then you can also solve this issue as :

<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputEditText
                android:id="@+id/ed_password"
                android:inputType="textPassword"
                android:focusable="true"
                android:imeOptions="actionNext"
                android:nextFocusDown="@id/ed_confirmPassword" />

and in your activity:

edPassword.setOnEditorActionListener(new EditText.OnEditorActionListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
            if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_NEXT) {
                focusOnView(scroll,edConfirmPassword);
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }
    });

public void focusOnView(ScrollView scrollView, EditText viewToScrollTo){
    scrollView.post(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            scrollView.smoothScrollTo(0, viewToScrollTo.getBottom());
            viewToScrollTo.requestFocus();
        }
    });
}
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