Detect touch on EditText, but not interrupt it?

I need to know when the user touche开发者_如何学JAVAs/taps/clicks the edittext in my activity.

How can I do this without interrupting the events, so the keypad still displays properly?

(And I need to know about it before the OS displays the keypad...if possible)

txtEdit.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener(){
    public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent motionEvent) {                                                       
         // your code here....
         getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);                
         return false;
    }
});

View.OnTouchListener onTouchListener = new View.OnTouchListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {

            if(event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP){

...


}

You should be able to do this by attaching an OnClickListener to your EditText. If you're concerned about blocking the UI thread in your OnClickListener, you can spawn a new Thread and do your work in there - though, if you do that, there's no guarantee the work will be done before the keypad shows up.

Less verbosity

The same Mathias Conradt's approach, but using kotlin:

txtEdit.setOnTouchListener({ view, motionEvent ->
    // your code here....
    false
})

This line getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE); is unnecessary since the keyboard shown when you tap the editText view.

OnTouchListener was getting called twice for me (on Pixel 2 running Pie). So I used OnFocusChangeListener instead:

txtEdit.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
            @Override
            public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
                if (hasFocus) {
                    Log.d(TAG,"Focused Now!");
                }
            }
        });