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

Sometimes raukodraug's answer won't work. I've make it in this way with some trials and errors:

public static void showKeyboard(Activity activity) {
    if (activity != null) {
        activity.getWindow()
                .setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
    }
}

public static void hideKeyboard(Activity activity) {
    if (activity != null) {
        activity.getWindow()
                .setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
    }
}

And the EditText part:

    editText.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
        @Override
        public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
            if (!hasFocus) {
                hideKeyboard(getActivity());
            } else {
                showKeyboard(getActivity());
            }
        }
    });

Answer 2

just add android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden" in manifest file...

Answer 3

For fragment, sure its working:

 displayName = (EditText) view.findViewById(R.id.displayName);
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);

Answer 4

I combined everything here and for me it works:

public static void showKeyboardWithFocus(View v, Activity a) {
    try {
        v.requestFocus();
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) a.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.showSoftInput(v, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
        a.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_VISIBLE);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Answer 5

Believe or not my problem with Soft Keyboard was resolved when I discovered that the Activities animations can disable the Soft Keyboard. When you call the intent with the

i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_ANIMATION);

and

overridePendingTransition(0, 0);

It can hide the Soft Keyboard and there isn't a way to show it.

Answer 6

All solutions given above (InputMethodManager interaction in OnFocusChangeListener.onFocusChange listener attached to your EditText works fine if you have single edit in the activity.

In my case I have two edits.

 private EditText tvX, tvY;
 protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
 tvX.setOnFocusChangeListener(this);
    tvY.setOnFocusChangeListener(this);

@Override
public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {       
    InputMethodManager imm =  (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    if(tvX.hasFocus() || tvY.hasFocus()) {            
        imm.showSoftInput(v, 0);            
    } else {
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), 0);         
    }       
};

I have observed that onFocusChange is triggered for tvX with hasFocus=true (keyboard shown) but then for tvY with hasFocus=true (keyboard hidden). In the end, no keyboard was visible.

General solution should have correct statement in if "show keyboard if EditText text has focus"