Can someone explain descendantFocusability = afterDescendants?
I'm having hard time understanding descendantFocusability
. Very particulary afterDescendants
.
Could someone show me an example of when this would be useful?
Defines the relationship between the ViewGroup
and its descendants when looking for a View
to take focus.
Must be one of the following constant values.
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Constant Value Description | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | afterDescendants 1 The ViewGroup will get focus only if | | none of its descendants want it. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | beforeDescendants 0 The ViewGroup will get focus before | | any of its descendants. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | blocksDescendants 2 The ViewGroup will block its descendants from | | receiving focus. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
You can check the complete example here.
The snippet is :
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
int position, long id) {
ListView listView = getListView();
Log.d(TAG, "onItemSelected gave us " + view.toString());
Button b = (Button) view.findViewById(R.id.button);
EditText et = (EditText) view.findViewById(R.id.editor);
if (b != null || et != null) {
// Use afterDescendants to keep ListView from getting focus
listView.setDescendantFocusability(ViewGroup.FOCUS_AFTER_DESCENDANTS);
if(et!=null) et.requestFocus();
else if(b!=null) b.requestFocus();
} else {
if (!listView.isFocused()) {
// Use beforeDescendants so that previous selections don't re-take focus
listView.setDescendantFocusability(ViewGroup.FOCUS_BEFORE_DESCENDANTS);
listView.requestFocus();
}
}
}
As per the above snippet, afterDescendants
is used to prevent listview
from getting focus, so that either EditText
or Button
can request focus.
Note: The link provided above is broken. Please refer to my Gist for the code