Also, when the keyboard shows, focus is lost even if text is in the view requiring 2 clicks by the user.Įxpected behavior: Focus should be gained and kept when a user clicks on an edit text, until keyboard dismissed or focus cleared. If the user deletes all contents, focus is lost.

When the user clicks on the view with text inside it, focus will be gained and cursor will show. Further, when the user clicks the view the keyboard gains pseudo focus and will accept input into the edit text without any cursor showing. If you're using adapter.notifyItem*() then you're good with just removing the animator.Īs pointed out in the bug report, in the latter case you can also just disable the 'change' item animation.Description: An empty edit text is not focusable at all when a user clicks on it. A workaround exists to avoid the issue by disabling the item animations: RecyclerView recyclerView = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.list) įor this to work, if you use adapter.notifyDataSetChanged() then your adapter also needs to support stable IDs ( setHasStableIds(true)), and implement long getItemId(int position). Luckily, this is not the intended behaviour, but rather 'just' a RecyclerView item animator bug.

Here's how the issue looks like for a user:įor users that rely on interacting with focusable elements this is extremely annoying and time consuming.

The former is the one you have when using a D-Pad or a trackball to navigate the latter is the one that comes up when the user is using TalkBack, or a switch. This happens for both view focus and accessibility focus (with a switch or screenreader). We found that a RecyclerView would lose its focus when you update the data backing its adapter. A common use case is to perform some action on a list item in place-for example marking a Tweet as favourite or starring a To-do. focusing on at Novoda is to increase support for vision impaired users in our apps. Seb and Ataul were working on some accessibility improvements to the All-4 Android app and came across a RecyclerView focus bug.

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