Android : Android - programatically changing the row layout of a custom listView row fails when focus is requested on its edittext child

Sorry for the long title.

I have an android application which shows a custom listView with 5 TextView columns. When the user clicks a row, I change the layout to have 3 TextViews and 2 EditTexts. I have different layout files for both of them. Everything worked fine initially, the row layout changes properly and I am able to click on the EditText and input values. However, I want either of the 2 EditText to automatically gain focus based on what is clicked. I already have a working code for this. My problem is that programatically requesting requestFocus() seems to block the part where I change the row layout with the new view.

Here is the code that changes my row layout, it works fine without the requestFocus() line:

private void changeLayout(final View view){

    //get views from old row layout
    TextView textViewQuantity = (TextView)view.findViewById(R.id.qtyInput);
    TextView textViewDiscountReq = (TextView)view.findViewById(R.id.discInput);
    TextView textViewName = (TextView)view.findViewById(R.id.dialogItemName);
    TextView textViewPrice = (TextView)view.findViewById(R.id.price);
    TextView textViewDiscount = (TextView)view.findViewById(R.id.discount);

    //store values in strings
    String itemName = textViewName.getText().toString();
    String itemPrice = textViewPrice.getText().toString();
    String itemDiscount = textViewDiscount.getText().toString();
    String itemQty = textViewQuantity.getText().toString();
    String itemDisc = textViewDiscountReq.getText().toString();

    //set the view to gone
    textViewQuantity.setVisibility(View.GONE);
    textViewDiscountReq.setVisibility(View.GONE);
    textViewName.setVisibility(View.GONE);
    textViewPrice.setVisibility(View.GONE);
    textViewDiscount.setVisibility(View.GONE);

    //get the old layout
    LinearLayout ll_inflate = (LinearLayout)view.findViewById(R.id.search_result_layout);   

    //get the inflate/new view
    View child = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.search_result_inflate, null);

    //get the views in the new view, populate them
    TextView newName = (TextView)child.findViewById(R.id.dialogItemName);
    newName.setText(itemName);

    TextView newDiscount = (TextView)child.findViewById(R.id.discount);
    newDiscount.setText(itemDiscount);

    TextView newPrice = (TextView)child.findViewById(R.id.price);
    newPrice.setText(itemPrice);

    qtyIn = (EditText)child.findViewById(R.id.qtyInputSearchResult);
    qtyIn.setText(itemQty);
    qtyIn.setFilters(new InputFilter[] {filter});

    discIn = (EditText)child.findViewById(R.id.discInputSearchResult);
    discIn.setText(itemDisc);

    //show new layout
    ll_inflate.removeAllViews();
    ll_inflate.removeAllViewsInLayout();
    ll_inflate.addView(child);

    //request focus here
    if(focusTarget == 1){
        Log.d("hello", "focus target is 1 " );
        qtyIn.setFocusable(true);
        qtyIn.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
        qtyIn.requestFocus();
    }
    else if(focusTarget == 2){
        Log.d("hello", "focus target is 2 " );
        discIn.requestFocus();
    }

    Log.d("hello", "focus state qtyIn = " + qtyIn.isFocused());
    Log.d("hello", "focus state discIn = " + discIn.isFocused());
}

The interesting part is that the Log shows the proper values, it says the proper focus status according to what I want. However, the ll_inflate.addView(child); line does not work at all!

Does anyone know what happened here? I'm really confused as to why the layout didn't change but the lines after the .addView() line executed. Another weird thing is how requestFocus(); prevents the view from changing.

Any help is very much appreciated. Thanks.