How to focus and show soft keyboard when a EditText is shown in action bar?

Question

I used ActionBarSherlock to create ActionBar it has a search button that shows an AutoCompleteEditText (SHOW_AS_COLLAPSIBLE_ACTION_VIEW) When Searc

Answer 1

If you still have the problem, so call the following method

imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY);

instead of

imm.showSoftInput(searchBar, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);