EditText request focus not working

Question

I have an EditText and a Button. On click of the button i want to open the EditText keyboard and at the same time request focus on the EditText, So that the user directly start typing in the keyboard and text appears in the EditText. But in my case when i click the button it open the keyboard, but it won't set focus on the EditText, because of which user has to click the EditText again to write on it. What is the issue. Any help or suggestion.

Code On click of button

m_SearchEditText.requestFocus();
InputMethodManager inputMethodManager=(InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputMethodManager.toggleSoftInputFromWindow(m_SearchEditText.getApplicationWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);

Answer 1

Minimalist Kotlin extension version because we should pretend these sorts of obtuse calls into system services are not necessary:

fun EditText.requestKeyboardFocus() {
    val inputMethodManager = context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(this, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT)
}