android - show soft keyboard on demand

Question

Hi I wrapped edittext control onto a control that is being displayed on the screen at users request. It overlays the whole screen until user presses \'done\' button on the k

Answer 1

@dropsOfJupiter

You can do: editText.requestFocus() as you launch the Activity or Fragment containing your EditText reference. This will give the focus to the EditText and will bring uo the SoftKeyboard.

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

In your showKeyboard function you are calling:

 imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(this._textView.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);

This will hide the softInput keyboard from the window! Do you want to show the keyboard? If yes then would you use:

 imm.showSoftInput(view, flags, resultReceiver);

EDIT: I think you can also toggle the keyboard from the InputMethodManager, try:

 imm.toggleSoftInput(0, 0);