Show soft keyboard when Activity starts

Question

I have 2 activities, A and B. When A starts, it checks for a condition and if true, it calls startActivityForResult() to start B. B only takes text input so it

Answer 1

If requestFocus on an EditText isn't showing it, maybe this'll do it:

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(
    Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(mEditText, 0);

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Answer 2

Major Attention Required!

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustPan" This alone won't work to show keyboard on activity start.

You also need to explicitly add this into your class

editTextXYZ.requestFocus()
        val imm: InputMethodManager =
            getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
        imm.showSoftInput(editTextXYZ, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT)

Answer 3

File : AndroidManifest.xml

<activity android:name=".MainActivity">

Add following property :

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible"

Which worked for me.

Answer 4

If you're using an emulator, you have to turn the hard keyboard off in order for the soft keyboard to show.

Answer 5

What worked best for me is in Android Manifest for activity B adding

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible"

Hope that helps for you as well.

Answer 6

Easiest solution: Put

android:windowSoftInputMode = "stateVisible" 

in Activity section of AndroidManifest.xml