EditText request focus

Question

I am designing a login page as:

UserName:  .....  Password:  .....       LoginButton 

When the activity starts, I want the focus to go to "UserName" textbox and the keyboard to appear.

I am using the following code:

    boolean checkFocus=user.requestFocus();     Log.i("CheckFocus", ""+checkFocus);     if(checkFocus==true)     {     InputMethodManager mgr = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);     mgr.showSoftInput(user, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);     } 

I don't understand where to write this code to make the keyboard appear when the activity starts and focus is on the "UserName" editText box. Can anyone please guide me?

Answer 1

Programatically:

edittext.requestFocus(); 

Through xml:

<EditText...>     <requestFocus /> </EditText> 

Or call onClick method manually.

Answer 2

Yes, I got the answer.. just simply edit the manifest file as:

        <activity android:name=".MainActivity"         android:label="@string/app_name"         android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible" /> 

and set EditText.requestFocus() in onCreate()..

Thanks..