Set initial focus in an Android application

Question

In my Android application it automatically focuses the first Button I have in my layout, giving it an orange outline. How can I set the initial focus preferably in XML, and can this be set to nothing?

Answer 1

You could use the requestFocus tag:

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

I find it odd though that it auto-focuses one of your buttons, I haven't observed that behavior in any of my views.

Answer 2

@Someone Somewhere, I tried all of the above to no avail. The fix I found is from http://www.helloandroid.com/tutorials/remove-autofocus-edittext-android . Basically, you need to create an invisible layout just above the problematic Button:

<LinearLayout android:focusable="true"               android:focusableInTouchMode="true"                android:layout_width="0px"               android:layout_height="0px" >     <requestFocus /> </LinearLayout>