Show soft keyboard when Activity starts

Question

I have 2 activities, A and B. When A starts, it checks for a condition and if true, it calls startActivityForResult() to start B. B only takes text input so it

Answer 1

Major Attention Required!

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustPan" This alone won't work to show keyboard on activity start.

You also need to explicitly add this into your class

editTextXYZ.requestFocus()
        val imm: InputMethodManager =
            getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
        imm.showSoftInput(editTextXYZ, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT)