Moving to the next EditText in android

Question

According to the question and answer posted How to automatically move to the next edit text in android , I used the code to move to the next edit box.

et1.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {      public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start,int before, int count)      {         // TODO Auto-generated method stub         if(et1.getText().toString().length()==size)     //size as per your requirement         {             et2.requestFocus();         }     }     public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start,                     int count, int after) {                 // TODO Auto-generated method stub      }      public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {                 // TODO Auto-generated method stub     }  }); 

The issue I am facing is in case I enter something wrong, then even if the user explicitly request focus , the text box moves to the next one due to the code in the text watcher. Is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening ?

Answer 1

It might be very late but I have a solution which is much easier to apply. Just add this code to the edittext field in the layout.xml file. Add this to edittext which you want to show a next button instead of a done button. So it will point to the next Edittext field.

android:imeOptions="actionNext" 

Answer 2

If you want to focus next EditText on enter pressed you can use those options at XML code to focus next EditText:

Option 1:

<EditText     android:layout_width="match_parent"     android:layout_height="wrap_content"     android:imeOptions="actionNext"     android:singleLine="true"/> 

Option 2:

<EditText     android:id="@+id/et1"     android:layout_width="match_parent"     android:layout_height="wrap_content"     android:singleLine="true"     android:nextFocusForward="@+id/et2"/>  <EditText     android:id="@+id/et2"     android:layout_width="match_parent"     android:layout_height="wrap_content"     android:singleLine="true"/>