Loss of focus issue: The Hacky Workaround(tm)

I have also encountered this before, I think it is in Calendar and Agenda plugin tw-calendar with Mobile frendly agenda page layout

Where I am implementing a EventsCalendarSearchLayout, that have a search bar, here:

My comment was

don’t wrap edit-text widget with set or let, otherwise it will keeps refreshing and auto select all text, cause old chars get deleted.

Not sure why, but I also walkaround it.