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FocusManager

interface FocusManager
androidx.compose.ui.focus.FocusManager

Summary

Public methods
abstract Unit
clearFocus(forcedClear: Boolean = false)

Call this function to clear focus from the currently focused component, and set the focus to the root focus modifier.
abstract Boolean
moveFocus(focusDirection: FocusDirection)

Moves focus in the specified direction.

Public methods

clearFocus

abstract fun clearFocus(forcedClear: Boolean = false): Unit

Call this function to clear focus from the currently focused component, and set the focus to the root focus modifier.

Parameters
forcedClear: Boolean = false : Whether we should forcefully clear focus regardless of whether we have any components that have Captured focus.

moveFocus

abstract fun moveFocus(focusDirection: FocusDirection): Boolean

Moves focus in the specified direction.

Focus moving is still being implemented. Right now, focus will move only if the user specified a custom focus traversal order for the item that is currently focused. (Using the Modifier.focusOrder() API).

Return
true if focus was moved successfully. false if the focused item is unchanged.