How can I make the Android emulator show the soft keyboard?

Question

I\'m debugging an issue with the soft keyboard display not displaying when it should. However, I don\'t have a device handy for testing. The problem is that the em

Answer 1

To be more precise, with Lollipop these are the steps I followed to show soft keyboard:

1. Settings > Language & Input;
2. under "Keyboard & input methods" label, select "Current Keyboard";
3. A Dialog named "Change Keyboard" appears, switch ON "Hardware", then select "Choose keyboards";
4. another Dialog appears, switch ON the "Sample Soft Keyboard". Here you get an alert about the possibility that keyboard will store everything you write, also passwords. Give OK;
5. Repeat above steps in order to show "Change Keyboard" Dialog again, here the new option "Sample Soft Keyboard" is available and you can select it.

NOTE: after that, you might experience problems in running you app (as I had). Simply restart the emulator.