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

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.

A solution is to post a delayed runnable that checks to see if the EditText view is still focused, and if it is not, focus it.

editText.setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {
    @Override
    public void onFocusChange(final View v, boolean hasFocus) {
        if (hasFocus) {
            // Request focus in a short time because the
            // keyboard may steal it away.
            v.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    if (!v.hasFocus()) {
                        v.requestFocus();
                    }
                }
            }, 200);
        }
    }
});

You could try something like :

editText.requestFocus();

You could also set this :

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

in your manifest file