How can I set the focus (and display the keyboard)

Question

I have a layout which contains some views like this:

<LinearLayout>
<TextView...>
<TextView...>
<ImageView ...>
<EditText...>
<Button...>
</linearLayout>

How can I set the focus (display the keyboard) on my EditText programmatically?

I've tried this and it works only when I launch my Activity normally, but when I launch it in a TabHost, it doesn't work.

txtSearch.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
txtSearch.setFocusable(true);
txtSearch.requestFocus();

Answer 1

Here is how a kotlin extension for showing and hiding the soft keyboard can be made:

fun View.showKeyboard() {
  this.requestFocus()
  val inputMethodManager = context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
  inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(this, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT)
}

fun View.hideKeyboard() {
  val inputMethodManager = context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
  inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0)
}

Then you can just do this:

editText.showKeyboard()
// OR
editText.hideKeyboard()

Answer 2

Here is KeyboardHelper Class for hiding and showing keyboard

import android.content.Context;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager;
import android.widget.EditText;

/**
 * Created by khanhamza on 06-Mar-17.
 */

public class KeyboardHelper {

    public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Context context, View view) {
        if (context == null) {
            return;
        }

        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) context
                .getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);

    }

    public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Context context, EditText editText) {

        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) context
                .getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.getWindowToken(), 0);
    }


    public static void openSoftKeyboard(Context context, EditText editText) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.showSoftInput(editText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
    }

}