Can I use the soft keyboard without an EditText?

Question

I\'m creating a simple typing game in Android. I have no problem getting input from the physical keyboard, but now I\'m trying to get the soft keyboard to appear without the

Answer 1

Instead of using visibility="invisible" you can set android:alpha="0" on your EditText. So you still need a EditText but it is not visible and you can get the input from the softkeyboard by an onKeyListener()