EditText loses focus when keyboard appears; requires touching twice to edit

Question

I have been designing an application which holds an expandable list. At the end of every list, an empty EditText is ready to receive comments. I have the following

Answer 1

I had the same problem...I solved it by extending EditText.

I created an onClickListener and in this method I've got the following code:

public OnClickListener clickListener = new OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        EditTextInput.this.setFocusable(true);
        EditTextInput.this.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
        EditTextInput.this.requestFocus();
    }
};       

I then placed the following code in the onKeyPreIme callback. You'll have to extend EditText to get access to it.

@Override
public boolean onKeyPreIme(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
    if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK & event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_UP) {
        EditTextInput.clearFocus();
        EditTextInput.this.setFocusable(false);
        EditTextInput.this.setFocusableInTouchMode(false);            
        return false;
    }
    return super.dispatchKeyEvent(event);
}

I find I have to toggle the focusable flag in order to bring the keyboard up on the very first click. Hope this helps...works for me.