How do I position the cursor at a default position?

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The image shows the screenshot of my application. As you can see that the cursor is at the text field pertaining to "Height". Whenever I launch my app the default cursor position is at "Height". I want it to be on "Mass". How do I do it ? I can't figure out. Please help.!

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Try putting this in your onCreate: massEditText.requestFocus(); (You'll need to change the edittext name to whatever yours is called) — Noob, Mar 13 '14 at 16:04
possible duplicate of [EditText request focus](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8077755/edittext-request-focus) — Max Meijer, Mar 13 '14 at 16:07

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 13 '14 at 16:11

Take a look at your .xml file:

   <EditText
        android:id="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:ems="10" >

        <requestFocus />

    </EditText>

And set the <requestFocus /> tag appropriately. Also, you can call:

EditText.requestFocus();

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 20 '14 at 06:59

Either update your .xml file as follows.

<EditText 
 android:id=@+id/etMass
 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <requestFocus/> </EditText>

Or Use Code:

EditText etMass = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etMass);
etMass.requestFocus();

How do I position the cursor at a default position?

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