Soft keyboard open and close listener in an activi

Question

I have an Activity where there are 5 EditTexts. When the user clicks on the first EditText, the soft keyboard opens to enter some value in it. I want to set some other View's visibility to Gone when the soft keyboard opens and also when the user clicks on the first EditText and also when the soft keyboard closes from the same EditText on the back button press. Then I want to set some other View's visibility to visible.

Is there any listener or callback or any hack for when the soft keyboard opens from a click on the first EditText in Android?

Answer 1

This code works great nice

use this class for root view:

public class KeyboardConstraintLayout extends ConstraintLayout {

private KeyboardListener keyboardListener;
private EditText targetEditText;
private int minKeyboardHeight;
private boolean isShow;

public KeyboardConstraintLayout(Context context) {
    super(context);
    minKeyboardHeight = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.keyboard_min_height); //128dp
}

public KeyboardConstraintLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    minKeyboardHeight = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.keyboard_min_height); // 128dp
}

public KeyboardConstraintLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
    minKeyboardHeight = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.keyboard_min_height); // 128dp
}

@Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
    if (!isInEditMode()) {
        Activity activity = (Activity) getContext();
        @SuppressLint("DrawAllocation")
        Rect rect = new Rect();
        getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(rect);

        int statusBarHeight = rect.top;
        int keyboardHeight = activity.getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getHeight() - (rect.bottom - rect.top) - statusBarHeight;

        if (keyboardListener != null && targetEditText != null && targetEditText.isFocused()) {
            if (keyboardHeight > minKeyboardHeight) {
                if (!isShow) {
                    isShow = true;
                    keyboardListener.onKeyboardVisibility(true);
                }
            }else {
                if (isShow) {
                    isShow = false;
                    keyboardListener.onKeyboardVisibility(false);
                }
            }
        }
    }
    super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
}

public boolean isShowKeyboard() {
    return isShow;
}

public void setKeyboardListener(EditText targetEditText, KeyboardListener keyboardListener) {
    this.targetEditText = targetEditText;
    this.keyboardListener = keyboardListener;
}

public interface KeyboardListener {
    void onKeyboardVisibility (boolean isVisible);
}

}

and set keyboard listener in activity or fragment:

        rootLayout.setKeyboardListener(targetEditText, new KeyboardConstraintLayout.KeyboardListener() {
        @Override
        public void onKeyboardVisibility(boolean isVisible) {

        }
    });

Answer 2

A different approach would be to check when the user stopped typing...

When a TextEdit is in focus (user is/was typing) you could hide the views (focus listener)

and use a Handler + Runnable and a text change listener to close the keyboard (regardless of its visibility) and show the views after some delay.

The main thing to look out for would be the delay you use, which would depend on the content of these TextEdits.

Handler timeoutHandler = new Handler();
Runnable typingRunnable = new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
        // current TextEdit
        View view = getCurrentFocus();

        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        // reset focus
        view.clearFocus();
        // close keyboard (whether its open or not)
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.RESULT_UNCHANGED_SHOWN);

        // SET VIEWS VISIBLE
    }
};

editText.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
    @Override
    public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
        if (hasFocus) {
            // SET VIEWS GONE

            // reset handler
            timeoutHandler.removeCallbacks(typingRunnable);
            timeoutHandler.postDelayed(typingRunnable, TYPING_TIMEOUT);
        }
    }
});

editText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
    @Override
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {}

    @Override
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
        // Reset Handler...
        timeoutHandler.removeCallbacks(typingRunnable);
    }

    @Override
    public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
        // Reset Handler Cont.
        if (editText.getText().toString().trim().length() > 0) {
            timeoutHandler.postDelayed(typingRunnable, TYPING_TIMEOUT);
        }
    }
});

Answer 3

This is not working as desired...

... have seen many use size calculations to check ...

I wanted to determine if it was open or not and I found isAcceptingText()

so this really does not answer the question as it does not address opening or closing rather more like is open or closed so it is related code that may help others in various scenarios...

in an activity

    if (((InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).isAcceptingText()) {
        Log.d(TAG,"Software Keyboard was shown");
    } else {
        Log.d(TAG,"Software Keyboard was not shown");
    }

in a fragment

    if (((InputMethodManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).isAcceptingText()) {
        Log.d(TAG,"Software Keyboard was shown");
    } else {
        Log.d(TAG,"Software Keyboard was not shown");

    }

Answer 4

Jaap's answer won't work for AppCompatActivity. Instead get the height of the Status Bar and Navigation bar etc and compare to your app's window size.

Like so:

    private ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener keyboardLayoutListener = new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
    @Override
    public void onGlobalLayout() {
        // navigation bar height
        int navigationBarHeight = 0;
        int resourceId = getResources().getIdentifier("navigation_bar_height", "dimen", "android");
        if (resourceId > 0) {
            navigationBarHeight = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(resourceId);
        }

        // status bar height
        int statusBarHeight = 0;
        resourceId = getResources().getIdentifier("status_bar_height", "dimen", "android");
        if (resourceId > 0) {
            statusBarHeight = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(resourceId);
        }

        // display window size for the app layout
        Rect rect = new Rect();
        getWindow().getDecorView().getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(rect);

        // screen height - (user app height + status + nav) ..... if non-zero, then there is a soft keyboard
        int keyboardHeight = rootLayout.getRootView().getHeight() - (statusBarHeight + navigationBarHeight + rect.height());

        if (keyboardHeight <= 0) {
            onHideKeyboard();
        } else {
            onShowKeyboard(keyboardHeight);
        }
    }
};

Answer 5

public class MainActivity extends BaseActivity {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.mainactivity);
    attachKeyboardListeners();
    ....
    yourEditText1.setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {
    @Override
    public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
            if (hasFocus) {
                yourEditText2.setVisibility(View.GONE);
                yourEditText3.setVisibility(View.GONE);
                yourEditText4.setVisibility(View.GONE);
                yourEditText5.setVisibility(View.GONE);
            } else {
                yourEditText2.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                yourEditText3.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                yourEditText4.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                yourEditText5.setVisibility(VISIBLE);
            }
       }
    });
    }
}

Answer 6

Piece of cake with the awesome KeyboardVisibilityEvent library: https://android-arsenal.com/details/1/2519

KeyboardVisibilityEvent.setEventListener(
    getActivity(),
    new KeyboardVisibilityEventListener() {
        @Override
        public void onVisibilityChanged(boolean isOpen) {
            // some code depending on keyboard visiblity status
        }
    });

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