How to set focus to a button widget programmatically?

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Vinayak Bevinakatti picture Vinayak Bevinakatti · Jul 13, 2010 · Viewed 117.7k times · Source

Is it possible to set a focus to a button widget which lies somewhere down in my layout? onCreate of the activity my control/focus should be on that button programmatically.

Answer

Pentium10 picture Pentium10 · Jul 13, 2010

Yeah it's possible.

Button myBtn = (Button)findViewById(R.id.myButtonId);
myBtn.requestFocus();

or in XML

<Button ...><requestFocus /></Button>

Important Note: The button widget needs to be focusable and focusableInTouchMode. Most widgets are focusable but not focusableInTouchMode by default. So make sure to either set it in code

myBtn.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);

or in XML

android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

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