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

Question

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

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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;
    }
});

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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

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>

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.