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

you can try this below code to android manifest.xml

add the code to android manifest android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"

And also add to xml layout

<EditText  
      android:background="#FFFFFF"
      android:capitalize="sentences"
      android:inputType="textVisiblePassword"
      android:layout_height="35px"
      >
      <requestFocus />