How to use Phonegap SoftKeyboard Plugin for Android?

Question

I am developing an Android application using Phonegap. I need to make the softkeyboard appear programatically. I am using the SoftKeyboard plugin which is found here. Can an

Answer 1

For the latest version of PhoneGap (Apache Cordova 2.1.0) I had to do the following:

Installed these plugin sources which reflected the project name change: https://github.com/originalgremlin/phonegap-plugins/tree/master/Android/SoftKeyboard

• Copy softkeyboard.js to your javascript library directory.
• Copy SoftKeyBoard.java to src/org/apache/cordova/plugins/SoftKeyBoard.java

Put this in your HTML file, after including the cordova.js file:

Add this to the bottom of the res/xml/config.xml plugins section:

Now, assuming this HTML:

Toggle Keyboard

This jQuery should do something useful:

var softkeyboard = window.cordova.plugins.SoftKeyBoard;
$('#keyboard').toggle(softkeyboard.show, softkeyboard.hide);