How to show soft-keyboard when edittext is focused

Question

I want to automatically show the soft-keyboard when an EditText is focused (if the device does not have a physical keyboard) and I have two problems:

1. When my Activity is displayed, my EditText is focused but the keyboard is not displayed, I need to click again on it to show the keyboard (it should be displayed when my Activity is displayed).

2. And when I click done on the keyboard, the keyboard is dissmissed but the EditText stays focused and y don't want (because my edit is done).

To resume, my problem is to have something more like on the iPhone: which keep the keyboard sync with my EditText state (focused / not focused) and of course does not present a soft-keyboard if there is a physical one.

Answer 1

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible" -> in manifest File.

edittext.requestFocus(); -> in code.

This will open soft keyboard on which edit-text has request focus as activity appears.

Answer 2

final InputMethodManager keyboard = (InputMethodManager) ctx.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
keyboard.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED,0);

Answer 3

editText.post(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.showSoftInput(editText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
    }
});

Answer 4

You can also create a custom extension of the EditText that knows to open the soft keyboard when it receives focus. That's what I've ended up doing. Here's what worked for me:

public class WellBehavedEditText extends EditText {
    private InputMethodManager inputMethodManager;
    private boolean showKeyboard = false;

    public WellBehavedEditText(Context context) {
        super(context);
        this.initializeWellBehavedEditText(context);
    }

    public WellBehavedEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attributes) {
        super(context, attributes);
        this.initializeWellBehavedEditText(context);
    }

    public WellBehavedEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attributes, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attributes, defStyleAttr);
        this.initializeWellBehavedEditText(context);
    }

    public WellBehavedEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attributes, int defStyleAttr, int defStyleRes) {
        super(context, attributes, defStyleAttr, defStyleRes);
        this.initializeWellBehavedEditText(context);
    }

    private void initializeWellBehavedEditText(Context context) {
        this.inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager)context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

        final WellBehavedEditText editText = this;
        this.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
            @Override
            public void onGlobalLayout() {
                if(showKeyboard) {
                    showKeyboard = !(inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(editText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED));
                }
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    protected void onFocusChanged(boolean focused, int direction, Rect previouslyFocusedRect) {
        if(!focused) this.showKeyboard = false;
        super.onFocusChanged(focused, direction, previouslyFocusedRect);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean requestFocus(int direction, Rect previouslyFocusedRect) {
        boolean result = super.requestFocus(direction, previouslyFocusedRect);
        this.showKeyboard = true;
        final WellBehavedEditText self = this;
        this.post(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                showKeyboard = !(inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(self, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED));
            }
        });
        return result;
    }
}

Answer 5

I have had some recent luck in some simple cases with the code below. I haven't finished all testing but....

EditText input = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.Input);
input.requestFocus();    
input.dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent.obtain(SystemClock.uptimeMillis(), SystemClock.uptimeMillis(), MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN , 0, 0, 0));
input.dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent.obtain(SystemClock.uptimeMillis(), SystemClock.uptimeMillis(), MotionEvent.ACTION_UP , 0, 0, 0));

And presto the keyboard shows up.

Answer 6

I had a similar problem using view animations. So I've put an animation listener to make sure I'd wait for the animation to end before trying to request a keyboard access on the shown edittext.

    bottomUp.setAnimationListener(new Animation.AnimationListener() {
        @Override
        public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) {
        }

        @Override
        public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation) {
            if (textToFocus != null) {
                // Position cursor at the end of the text
                textToFocus.setSelection(textToFocus.getText().length());
                // Show keyboard
                InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                imm.showSoftInput(textToFocus, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) {
        }
    });