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

You can try it:

private void initKeyBoardListener() {
    // Минимальное значение клавиатуры. Threshold for minimal keyboard height.
    final int MIN_KEYBOARD_HEIGHT_PX = 150;
    // Окно верхнего уровня view. Top-level window decor view.
    final View decorView = getWindow().getDecorView();
    // Регистрируем глобальный слушатель. Register global layout listener.
    decorView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
        // Видимый прямоугольник внутри окна. Retrieve visible rectangle inside window.
        private final Rect windowVisibleDisplayFrame = new Rect();
        private int lastVisibleDecorViewHeight;

        @Override
        public void onGlobalLayout() {
            decorView.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(windowVisibleDisplayFrame);
            final int visibleDecorViewHeight = windowVisibleDisplayFrame.height();

            if (lastVisibleDecorViewHeight != 0) {
                if (lastVisibleDecorViewHeight > visibleDecorViewHeight + MIN_KEYBOARD_HEIGHT_PX) {
                    Log.d("Pasha", "SHOW");
                } else if (lastVisibleDecorViewHeight + MIN_KEYBOARD_HEIGHT_PX < visibleDecorViewHeight) {
                    Log.d("Pasha", "HIDE");
                }
            }
            // Сохраняем текущую высоту view до следующего вызова.
            // Save current decor view height for the next call.
            lastVisibleDecorViewHeight = visibleDecorViewHeight;
        }
    });
}

Answer 2

This will work without any need to change your activity's android:windowSoftInputMode

step 1: extend EditText class and override these two:

@Override
public void setOnEditorActionListener(final OnEditorActionListener listener) {
    mEditorListener = listener;
    super.setOnEditorActionListener(listener);
}

@Override
public boolean onKeyPreIme(final int keyCode, final KeyEvent event) {
    if (event.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK && event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_UP) {
        if (mEditorListener != null) {
            mEditorListener.onEditorAction(this, android.R.id.closeButton, event);
        }
    }
    return super.onKeyPreIme(keyCode, event);
}

step 2: create these two in your activity:

private void initKeyboard() {
    final AppEditText editText = findViewById(R.id.some_id);
    editText.setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {
        @Override
        public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
            setKeyboard(hasFocus);
        }
    });
    editText.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
            if (event == null || event.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) {
                editText.clearFocus();
            }
            return false;
        }
    });
}

public void setKeyboard(boolean isShowing) {
    // do something
}

*** remember in order to make clearFocus work, you have to make parent or first child in the parent hierarchy focusable.

    setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
    setFocusable(true);

Answer 3

As Vikram pointed out in the comments, detecting whether the softkeyboard is shown or has disappeared is only possible with some ugly hacks.

Maybe it is enough to set a focus listener on the edittext:

yourEditText.setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {
@Override
public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
        if (hasFocus) {
            //got focus
        } else {
            //lost focus
        }
   }
});

Answer 4

"Jaap van Hengstum"'s answer is working for me, but there is no need to set "android:windowSoftInputMode" as he just said!

I've made it smaller(it now just detects what I want, actually an event on showing and hiding of keyboard):

private ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener keyboardLayoutListener = new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
    @Override
    public void onGlobalLayout() {
        int heightDiff = rootLayout.getRootView().getHeight() - rootLayout.getHeight();
        int contentViewTop = getWindow().findViewById(Window.ID_ANDROID_CONTENT).getTop();
        if(heightDiff <= contentViewTop){
            onHideKeyboard();
        } else {
            onShowKeyboard();
        }
    }
};

private boolean keyboardListenersAttached = false;
private ViewGroup rootLayout;

protected void onShowKeyboard() {}
protected void onHideKeyboard() {}

protected void attachKeyboardListeners() {
    if (keyboardListenersAttached) {
        return;
    }

    rootLayout = (ViewGroup) findViewById(R.id.CommentsActivity);
    rootLayout.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(keyboardLayoutListener);

    keyboardListenersAttached = true;
}

@Override
protected void onDestroy() {
    super.onDestroy();

    if (keyboardListenersAttached) {
        rootLayout.getViewTreeObserver().removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(keyboardLayoutListener);
    }
}

and just don't forget to add this

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_comments);
    attachKeyboardListeners();}

Answer 5

Unfortunately I do not have a sufficiently high reputation to comment on Jaap van Hengstum's answer. But I read a few comments of people, having the problem that contentViewTop is always 0 and that onShowKeyboard(...) is always called.

I had the same issue and figured out the problem I had. I used an AppCompatActivity instead of a 'normal' Activity. In this case Window.ID_ANDROID_CONTENT refers to an ContentFrameLayout and not to the FrameLayout with the right top-value. In my case it was fine to use the 'normal' Activity, if you have to use another activity-type (I just tested the AppCompatActivity, maybe it's also an issue with other acitivy-types like the FragmentActivity), you have to access the FrameLayout, which is an ancestor of the ContentFrameLayout.

Answer 6

Use this class,

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;

import android.os.Handler;
import android.os.Message;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager;
import android.widget.EditText;

public class SoftKeyboard implements View.OnFocusChangeListener
{
private static final int CLEAR_FOCUS = 0;

private ViewGroup layout;
private int layoutBottom;
private InputMethodManager im;
private int[] coords;
private boolean isKeyboardShow;
private SoftKeyboardChangesThread softKeyboardThread;
private List<EditText> editTextList;

private View tempView; // reference to a focused EditText

public SoftKeyboard(ViewGroup layout, InputMethodManager im)
{
    this.layout = layout;
    keyboardHideByDefault();
    initEditTexts(layout);
    this.im = im;
    this.coords = new int[2];
    this.isKeyboardShow = false;
    this.softKeyboardThread = new SoftKeyboardChangesThread();
    this.softKeyboardThread.start();
}

public void openSoftKeyboard()
{
    if(!isKeyboardShow)
    {
        layoutBottom = getLayoutCoordinates();
        im.toggleSoftInput(0, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
        softKeyboardThread.keyboardOpened();
        isKeyboardShow = true;
    }
}

public void closeSoftKeyboard()
{
    if(isKeyboardShow)
    {
        im.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);
        isKeyboardShow = false;
    }
}

public void setSoftKeyboardCallback(SoftKeyboardChanged mCallback)
{
    softKeyboardThread.setCallback(mCallback);
}

public void unRegisterSoftKeyboardCallback()
{
    softKeyboardThread.stopThread();
}

public interface SoftKeyboardChanged 
{
    public void onSoftKeyboardHide();
    public void onSoftKeyboardShow();   
}

private int getLayoutCoordinates()
{
    layout.getLocationOnScreen(coords);
    return coords[1] + layout.getHeight();
}

private void keyboardHideByDefault()
{
    layout.setFocusable(true);
    layout.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
}

/*
 * InitEditTexts now handles EditTexts in nested views
 * Thanks to Francesco Verheye ([e-mail])
 */
private void initEditTexts(ViewGroup viewgroup) 
{
    if(editTextList == null)
        editTextList = new ArrayList<EditText>();

    int childCount = viewgroup.getChildCount();
    for(int i=0; i<= childCount-1;i++) 
    {
        View v = viewgroup.getChildAt(i);

        if(v instanceof ViewGroup) 
        {
            initEditTexts((ViewGroup) v);
        }

        if(v instanceof EditText) 
        {
            EditText editText = (EditText) v;
            editText.setOnFocusChangeListener(this);
            editText.setCursorVisible(true);
            editTextList.add(editText);
        }
    }
}

/*
 * OnFocusChange does update tempView correctly now when keyboard is still shown
 * Thanks to Israel Dominguez ([e-mail])
 */
@Override
public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) 
{
    if(hasFocus) 
    {
        tempView = v;
        if(!isKeyboardShow) 
        {
            layoutBottom = getLayoutCoordinates();
            softKeyboardThread.keyboardOpened();
            isKeyboardShow = true;
        }
    }
}

// This handler will clear focus of selected EditText
private final Handler mHandler = new Handler()
{
    @Override
    public void handleMessage(Message m)
    {
        switch(m.what)
        {
        case CLEAR_FOCUS:
            if(tempView != null)
            {
                tempView.clearFocus();
                tempView = null;
            }
            break;
        }
    }
};

private class SoftKeyboardChangesThread extends Thread
{
    private AtomicBoolean started;
    private SoftKeyboardChanged mCallback;

    public SoftKeyboardChangesThread()
    {
        started = new AtomicBoolean(true);
    }

    public void setCallback(SoftKeyboardChanged mCallback)
    {
        this.mCallback = mCallback;
    }

    @Override
    public void run()
    {
        while(started.get())
        {
            // Wait until keyboard is requested to open
            synchronized(this)
            {
                try 
                {
                    wait();
                } catch (InterruptedException e) 
                {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }

            int currentBottomLocation = getLayoutCoordinates();

            // There is some lag between open soft-keyboard function and when it really appears.
            while(currentBottomLocation == layoutBottom && started.get())
            {
                currentBottomLocation = getLayoutCoordinates();
            }

            if(started.get())
                mCallback.onSoftKeyboardShow();

            // When keyboard is opened from EditText, initial bottom location is greater than layoutBottom
            // and at some moment equals layoutBottom.
            // That broke the previous logic, so I added this new loop to handle this.
            while(currentBottomLocation >= layoutBottom && started.get())
            {
                currentBottomLocation = getLayoutCoordinates();
            }

            // Now Keyboard is shown, keep checking layout dimensions until keyboard is gone
            while(currentBottomLocation != layoutBottom && started.get())
            {
                                    synchronized(this)
                {
                    try 
                    {
                        wait(500);
                    } catch (InterruptedException e) 
                    {
                        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }
                currentBottomLocation = getLayoutCoordinates();
            }

            if(started.get())
                mCallback.onSoftKeyboardHide();

            // if keyboard has been opened clicking and EditText.
            if(isKeyboardShow && started.get())
                isKeyboardShow = false;

            // if an EditText is focused, remove its focus (on UI thread)
            if(started.get())
                mHandler.obtainMessage(CLEAR_FOCUS).sendToTarget();
        }   
    }

    public void keyboardOpened()
    {
        synchronized(this)
        {
            notify();
        }
    }

    public void stopThread()
    {
        synchronized(this)
        {
            started.set(false);
            notify();
        }
    }

}
}

In Android Manifest, android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" is necessary.

/*
Somewhere else in your code
*/
RelativeLayout mainLayout = findViewById(R.layout.main_layout); // You must use the layout root
InputMethodManager im = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Service.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

/*
Instantiate and pass a callback
*/
SoftKeyboard softKeyboard;
softKeyboard = new SoftKeyboard(mainLayout, im);
softKeyboard.setSoftKeyboardCallback(new SoftKeyboard.SoftKeyboardChanged() {

@Override
public void onSoftKeyboardHide()  {
    // Code here
}

@Override
public void onSoftKeyboardShow() {
    // Code here
}   
});

/*
Open or close the soft keyboard easily
*/
softKeyboard.openSoftKeyboard();
softKeyboard.closeSoftKeyboard();

/* Prevent memory leaks:*/
@Override
public void onDestroy() {
    super.onDestroy();
    softKeyboard.unRegisterSoftKeyboardCallback();
}

P.S - Completely taken from here.