WebView textarea doesn't pop up the keyboard

Question

When I display a WebView, I don\'t see the soft keyboard popping up. The hard keyboard also doesn\'t work!

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Answer 1

I was having the exact same problem none of the above solutions worked for me. After ages of trying i finally found the problem.

Some of the various web pages I was rendering with WebView didn't fit properly into the Web view and as a result a div (or some other html component ) were being invisibly laid over the input fields. Although the input fields appeared selected when touched, they would not allow text input (even if i did manage to get the soft keyboard up using the track ball).

So the solution.

WebView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);

This won't completely stop the issue, but makes the view more like a PC browser which sites are designed for. Less change of the overlay.

Hope this helps you.