How to prevent android form from skipping sections in the form?
I have an Android form consisting of some editText and spinner widget. When you start at the first edittext and press next on the on-screen keyboard, it skips the spinners and goes straight to the next edittext entry. How can I prevent missing entries no matter what post types they are? for example spinner, edittext, dialog, etc. Here's my layout:
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/ScrollView01" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:scrollbars="vertical"
android:background="@drawable/flagbackground" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="490dp"
android:gravity="center"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/vetn"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<EditText android:id="@+id/etVetName"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="text" />
<TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/vetdob"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<EditText android:id="@+id/etVetDob"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="date" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="318dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/phone"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<EditText android:id="@+id/etVetPhone"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="top"
android:inputType="phone"
android:hint="@string/optional"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/branch"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<Spinner
android:id="@+id/SpinnerBranchType"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:prompt="@string/branch"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:entries="@array/branchtypelist">
</Spinner>
<TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/gender"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<Spinner
android:id="@+id/SpinnerSexType"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:prompt="@string/sex"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:entries="@array/sexlist">
</Spinner>
<TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/discharge"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<Spinner
android:id="@+id/DischargeType"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:prompt="@string/distype"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:entries="@array/dischargelist">
</Spinner>
<TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/dd214"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<Spinner
android:id="@+id/dd214Response"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:prompt="@string/dd214"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:entries="@array/yesnoanswer" >
</Spinner>
<TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/home"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<Spinner
android:id="@+id/homelessResponse"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:prompt="@string/homeless"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:entries="@array/yesnoanswer">
</Spinner>
<TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/weekend"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<Spinner
android:id="@+id/ngResponse"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:prompt="@string/ngrsrv"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:entries="@array/yesnoanswer">
</Spinner>
<TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/benefit"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<Spinner
android:id="@+id/benefitResponse"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:prompt="@string/benefits"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:entries="@array/yesnoanswer">
</Spinner>
<TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/foodstamps"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<Spinner
android:id="@+id/foodResponse"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:prompt="@string/food"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:entries="@array/yesnoanswer">
</Spinner>
<TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/cashaid"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<Spinner
android:id="@+id/cashResponse"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:prompt="@string/cash"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:entries="@array/yesnoanswer">
</Spinner>
<TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/ref"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<EditText android:id="@+id/etRefer"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="@string/refhint"
android:inputType="text" />
<TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/comment"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<EditText
android:id="@+id/etCommentBody"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="@string/hint"
android:inputType="textMultiLine"
android:lines="5"
android:layout_width="fill_parent">
</EditText>
<Button android:id="@+id/btnOK"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/submit"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
</LinearLayout>
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You must refer to the action of the next button yourself.
Here's how to simulate a click on your Spinner when the user clicks Next on the EditText in front of the Spinner and selects the following EditText to select one of the Spinner items:
// Set the EditText preceding the Spinner next action to click the Spinner
editTextBeforeSpinner.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
@Override
public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_NEXT) {
spinner.performClick();
return true;
}
return false;
}
});
// This is to avoid onItemSelected() being called on setup
spinner.setSelection(0, false);
/* Set Spinner item selection behaviour to move focus to the following View
(EditText, other Spinner, etc) on Spinner item selection */
spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
@Override
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
editTextAfterSpinner.requestFocus();
}
@Override
public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) {
}
});
Note that if the user re-selects the value previously selected on the Spinner, onItemSelected()
it will not be called, but there are workarounds to this.
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