Soft Keyboard shows up on EditText focus ONLY once

Question

Thanks for reading.

I am facing a strange problem: My app behavior is such that when the Activity starts, I requestFocus() on an Edi

Answer 1

You used the wrong view for showing the input window.

EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText);
editText.requestFocus();
InputMethodManager imm =(InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
if(imm != null) {
    imm.showSoftInput(editText, 0); 
}