diff --git a/plugins/android-designer/src/com/intellij/android/designer/icons/requestFocus.png b/plugins/android-designer/src/com/intellij/android/designer/icons/requestFocus.png
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ed239d4b4f99
Binary files /dev/null and b/plugins/android-designer/src/com/intellij/android/designer/icons/requestFocus.png differ
diff --git a/plugins/android-designer/src/com/intellij/android/designer/model/ModelParser.java b/plugins/android-designer/src/com/intellij/android/designer/model/ModelParser.java
index c0312cdf44ac..060aa7b71f82 100644
--- a/plugins/android-designer/src/com/intellij/android/designer/model/ModelParser.java
+++ b/plugins/android-designer/src/com/intellij/android/designer/model/ModelParser.java
@@ -377,12 +377,7 @@ public class ModelParser extends XmlRecursiveElementVisitor {
   public static void updateRootComponent(RadViewComponent rootComponent,
                                          RenderSession session,
                                          RootView nativeComponent) {
-    List<ViewInfo> views = session.getRootViews();
-    List<RadComponent> children = rootComponent.getChildren();
-    int size = children.size();
-    for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
-      updateComponent((RadViewComponent)children.get(i), views.get(i), nativeComponent, 0, 0);
-    }
+    updateChildren(rootComponent, session.getRootViews(), nativeComponent, 0, 0);
 
     rootComponent.setNativeComponent(nativeComponent);
     rootComponent.setBounds(0, 0, nativeComponent.getWidth(), nativeComponent.getHeight());
@@ -407,12 +402,18 @@ public class ModelParser extends XmlRecursiveElementVisitor {
 
     component.setBounds(left, top, Math.max(width, EMPTY_COMPONENT_SIZE), Math.max(height, EMPTY_COMPONENT_SIZE));
 
-    List<ViewInfo> views = view.getChildren();
+    updateChildren(component, view.getChildren(), nativeComponent, left, top);
+  }
+
+  private static void updateChildren(RadViewComponent component, List<ViewInfo> views, RootView nativeComponent, int left, int top) {
     List<RadComponent> children = component.getChildren();
     int size = children.size();
 
-    for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
-      updateComponent((RadViewComponent)children.get(i), views.get(i), nativeComponent, left, top);
+    for (int componentIndex = 0, viewIndex = 0; componentIndex < size; componentIndex++) {
+      RadViewComponent childComponent = (RadViewComponent)children.get(componentIndex);
+      if (!(childComponent instanceof RadRequestFocus)) {
+        updateComponent(childComponent, views.get(viewIndex++), nativeComponent, left, top);
+      }
     }
   }
 }
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diff --git a/plugins/android-designer/src/com/intellij/android/designer/model/RadRequestFocus.java b/plugins/android-designer/src/com/intellij/android/designer/model/RadRequestFocus.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..16553e1f84b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/android-designer/src/com/intellij/android/designer/model/RadRequestFocus.java
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2000-2012 JetBrains s.r.o.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package com.intellij.android.designer.model;
+
+import com.intellij.designer.propertyTable.Property;
+
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * @author Alexander Lobas
+ */
+public class RadRequestFocus extends RadViewComponent {
+  public RadRequestFocus() {
+    super.setProperties(Collections.<Property>emptyList());
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void setProperties(List<Property> properties) {
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/plugins/android-designer/src/com/intellij/android/designer/model/views-meta-model.xml b/plugins/android-designer/src/com/intellij/android/designer/model/views-meta-model.xml
index ece7ef65ba27..5c36a1947d6a 100644
--- a/plugins/android-designer/src/com/intellij/android/designer/model/views-meta-model.xml
+++ b/plugins/android-designer/src/com/intellij/android/designer/model/views-meta-model.xml
@@ -19,6 +19,15 @@
     <palette title="Device Screen (#merge)" icon="/com/intellij/android/designer/icons/DeviceScreen.png"/>
   </meta>
 
+  <meta model="com.intellij.android.designer.model.RadRequestFocus"
+        class="java.lang.Object"
+        tag="requestFocus">
+
+    <palette title="requestFocus" icon="/com/intellij/android/designer/icons/requestFocus.png"
+             tooltip="Requests focus for the parent element or one of its descendants."/>
+
+  </meta>
+
   <meta model="com.intellij.android.designer.model.RadIncludeLayout"
         class="java.lang.Object"
         tag="include">