How to check visibility of software keyboard in Android?

Question

I need to do a very simple thing - find out if the software keyboard is shown. Is this possible in Android?

Answer 1

I used a slight variant of Reuban's answer, which proved to be more helpful in certain circumstances, especially with high resolution devices.

final View activityRootView = findViewById(android.R.id.content);
activityRootView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(
        new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
            @Override
            public void onGlobalLayout() {
                int heightView = activityRootView.getHeight();
                int widthView = activityRootView.getWidth();
                if (1.0 * widthView / heightView > 3) {
                    //Make changes for Keyboard not visible
                } else {
                    //Make changes for keyboard visible
                }
            }
        });

Answer 2

i think this method will help you to find out is keybord is visible or not.

 public Boolean isSoftKeyBoardVisible(){
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

    if (imm.isAcceptingText()) {
        Log.d(TAG,"Software Keyboard was shown");
        return true;
    } else {
        Log.d(TAG,"Software Keyboard was not shown");
        return false;
    }

}

Answer 3

I found that a combination of @Reuben_Scratton's method along with @Yogesh's method seems to work best. Combining their methods would yield something like this:

final View activityRootView = findViewById(R.id.activityRoot);
activityRootView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
  @Override
  public void onGlobalLayout() {
    if (getResources().getConfiguration().keyboardHidden == Configuration.KEYBOARDHIDDEN_NO) { // Check if keyboard is not hidden
       // ... do something here
    }
  }
});

Answer 4

I used a little time to figure this out... I ran it some CastExceptions, but figured out that you can replace you LinearLayout in the layout.xml with the name of the class.

Like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<LinearLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:id="@+id/llMaster">

<com.ourshoppingnote.RelativeLayoutThatDetectsSoftKeyboard android:background="@drawable/metal_background"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:id="@+id/rlMaster" >
    <LinearLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="1dip" android:background="@drawable/line"></LinearLayout>

          ....

</com.ourshoppingnote.RelativeLayoutThatDetectsSoftKeyboard>    


</LinearLayout>

That way you do not run into any cast issues.

... and if you don't want to do this on every page, I recommend that you use "MasterPage in Android". See the link here: http://jnastase.alner.net/archive/2011/01/08/ldquomaster-pagesrdquo-in-android.aspx

Answer 5

you can try this, work great for me:

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

if (imm.isAcceptingText()) {
    //Software Keyboard was shown..
} else {
    //Software Keyboard was not shown..
}

Answer 6

Here's my solution, and it works. Instead of looking for pixel size just check that the height of the content view has changed or not:

// Scroll to the latest comment whenever the keyboard is shown
commentsContent.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {

        private int oldHeight;

        @Override
        public void onGlobalLayout() {
            int newHeight = commentsContent.getMeasuredHeight();
            if (newHeight < oldHeight) {
                // Check for the keyboard showing in case the height difference
                // is a result of orientation change
                if (isSoftKeyboardShowing(CommentsActivity.this)) {
                    // Keyboard is showing so scroll to the latest comment
                    scrollToLatestComment();
                }
            }
            oldHeight = newHeight;
        }

    });


public static boolean isSoftKeyboardShowing(Activity activity) {
    InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    return inputMethodManager.isActive();
}