android softkeyboard showSoftInput vs toggleSoftInput

Question

showSoftInput() doesn\'t show the keyboard for me, but toggleSoftInput() does. I saw some other post that said to disable the hard keyboard when us

Answer 1

I know this post is pretty old, but for those who came for answers from this date and none of the above worked. The code below worked for me on an Activity when an Alert Dialog popped up.

InputMethodManager keyboard = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

to show keyboard:

keyboard.toggleSoftInput(editText.getPaintFlags(), 0);

to hide keyboard:

keyboard.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.getWindowToken(), 0);