how to restore the edittext cursor position to end after requesting focus

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When i request for a focus for an editext few times it is moving the cursor to beginning even if there is some text. How can we place the cursor in such a way that it will be immediately after the text that is already present in it??

Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6217378/place-cursor-at-the-end-of-text-in-edittext — Orkun Ozen, Feb 06 '12 at 16:01

score 9 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 14 '20 at 13:49

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This will set the cursor to the last position of the text:

editText.setSelection(editText.getText().length());

edited Mar 14 '20 at 13:49

Avi Parshan

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answered Feb 06 '12 at 16:03

Padma Kumar

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 04 '13 at 08:22

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Edit Text has a property called append.I think the following line of code will also serve the purpose.

editText.append("");

answered Feb 04 '13 at 08:22

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 21 '13 at 18:45

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In Layout EditText give android:ellipsize property as end like this android:ellipsize="end"

Hope this will help

edited Mar 21 '13 at 18:45

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answered Mar 20 '13 at 07:47

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 07 '15 at 13:52

I had a similar requirement, when user wants to edit and clicks on EditText, cursor should be at the end. I achieved the same using below:

edtDisplayName.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {

        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {

            if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP || event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {

                edtDisplayName.setSelection(edtDisplayName.getText()
                        .length());

                edtDisplayName.requestFocus();

                //Open key board for user to edit
                Commons.showKeyBoard(OnBoardActivity.this, edtDisplayName);

                return true;

            }

            return false;
        }
    });

Here's how I opened the key-board:

public static void showKeyBoard(Context context, View view) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) context
            .getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.showSoftInput(view, 0);
}

how to restore the edittext cursor position to end after requesting focus

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