Edittext Requestfocus() Dynamically Not Working

I have multiple Edittexts on action next I have added nextFocus values in the xml. But one edit text is either visible or invisible based on the state of under age checkbox value.

Solution 1:

What was happening is the I was returning false from onEditorAction- Hence the default editor action was also performed back to back and the focus instantly moved away from the email editText. Now I return true and the deafult action is not performed.Its working correctly now.

dobYearEt.setOnEditorActionListener(new EditText.OnEditor ActionListener() {

        @Override

        public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
            Log.i("focus","on yyyy");
            if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE ||
              actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_NEXT) {
                Log.i("focus",isUnderAge+"");
                if(isUnderAge){
                    username_reg_ev_dob_row.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
                    username_reg_ev_dob_row.requestFocus();
                }else{

                  email_ev.requestFocus();

                }
                  returntrue ; // NOW WORKS// return false;
            }

Solution 2:

U need two xml attributes also to achieve this:

android:focusable="true"android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

Add them to the EditText as well as the parent layouts. By default these are false, so the focus is not given to the requested view.

Source: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#attr_android:focusable

After u show the EditText based on the checkbox selection, add the next and previous focus points dynamically in code.

Hope this helps.