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Why doesn't the softKeyboard open when I tap an editText inside a ViewPager?

Like the title says, I've got a viewPager with some editText fields inside. I can select the editText fields perfectly fine (emulator and physical device). I see the cursor, and I see the underline color change, indicating it's selected, but I can't type. Tapping on the editText fields doesn't open the softKeyboard.
Is this a known issue with a simple fix, or is code needed to identify what's going wrong here?

Finally bumped in to an answer that's working for me, which can be found here.
Basically, if you're using the onCreateDialog() method, you leave that as is, and add the onResume() method below to your DialogFragment's java file.
#Override
public void onResume() {
super.onResume();
Dialog dialog = getDialog();
dialog.getWindow().clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE | WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);
dialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_VISIBLE);
}

You can force softKeyboard with this code:
EditText yourEditText= (EditText) findViewById(R.id.yourEditText);
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(yourEditText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);

Views aren't redrawing after changes

On a Huawei phone running 4.0.1 I have a problem with views redrawing. In one situation I show the keyboard when the user is performing the search feature but when they hide the keyboard the views aren't redrawn that were behind the keyboard. The screen is just left blank in that space.
new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()).post( new Runnable() {
public void run() {
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(
Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(myEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);
}
});
I have other situations where I see simular symptoms with or without the post method but this was the simplest case to show. How can I prevent this from happening?

How to close soft keyboard in fragment

I have an EditText inside a fragment, which is in itself inside an actionbarsherlock tab. When I touch inside the EditText box a soft keyboard appears with one of the keys having a magnifying glass (search) icon. When I type some text and click on the search key I can process the typed-in-string in my onEditorAction, but the soft keyboard remains on display. How can I close it programatically?
By the way if one answer is that I could configure some setting for EditText such that it closes automatically on search, I would still like to know if the soft keyboard can be closed with a method call as I also have my own search button on screen (nothing to do with the soft keyboard) and I would like the soft keyboard to close when that's pressed too.
Note: Before anyone rushes to claim this question is a repeat of a previous question, I have seen many Q&A's about hiding the soft keyboard at various points. Many of the answers seem inordinately complicated and in many it is not clear whether the idea is to permanently hide the keyboard or just just temporarily close it till the user taps on an EditText field again. Also some answers require calls to methods not available in fragments.

In my fragments I close the keyboard simply in this way:
public static void closeKeyboard(Context c, IBinder windowToken) {
InputMethodManager mgr = (InputMethodManager) c.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
mgr.hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0);
}
closeKeyboard(getActivity(), yourEditText.getWindowToken());

This is working code to hide soft keyboard for android.
try {
InputMethodManager input = (InputMethodManager) activity
.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
input.hideSoftInputFromWindow(activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
}catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

I'm using this code in a fragment
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getActivity().getSystemService(
Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(text.getWindowToken(), 0);
when I click on an action bar icon and it's working, I don't see why it shouldn't work in your case (maybe I misunderstood the question).

You can check my answer here. It was the only way that worked for me inside fragment.

A clear way to close keyboard and clearfocus of an EditText inside a fragment, is to make sure that your EditText XML has :
android:id="#+id/myEditText"
android:imeOptions="actionDone"
Then set listener to your EditText (with Kotlin, and from a fragment):
myEditText.setOnEditorActionListener({ v, actionId, event ->
if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE) {
myEditText.clearFocus()
val imm = activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view!!.windowToken, 0)
}
false
})

Working in Fragment
getActivity().getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

How do I prevent the software keyboard from popping up?

I have my own keypad in my application so I want to hide the software keyboard all the time(in specific activities & dialogs).
I experimented with two options:
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
This code prevent the keyboard from popping up at the beginning, but when I click on the textbox the keyboard still pops.
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.getWindowToken(), 0);
This code hide the keyboard, but it doesn't prevent the keyboard from popping up.
PLEASE HELP!

Finally figured out!
I used
public void supressKeyboard() {
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
}
for the activities where I want to suppress the keyboard(you can put it in a general activity where all other activities inherit from)
But this won't prevent the keyboard from popping up when you click on the EditText textbox. What I did is I consumed the onTouch event for the text box:
#Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
return true;
}

android - show soft keyboard on demand

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 keyboard.
I am not able to explicitly show the control on the screen. only when user taps into control only then its shown. Am I missing something?
I even try this and it does not brin it up when I launch the overlay that Edit Text exists on:
customCOntrol.showKeyboard();
public void showKeyboard()
{
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)_context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(this._textView.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
}
here is the settig I have on the screen itself in the config file android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustPan"
Thank you in advance

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);

#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.

PROBLEM:
I faced with this keyboard not showing up problem. I wrote the following solution inspired by this answer but not their solution! It works fine. In short the reason for this mess is that the request focus and the IMM provided service can only run on a view that is created and active. When you do all these on the creation phase onCreate(Bundle savedInstance).. or onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater... and the view is still in initializing state, you won't get an active view to act on! I have seen many solutions using delays and checks to wait for that view to get active then do the show keyboard but here is my solution based on the android frame work design:
SOLUTION:
in your activity or fragment override the following make sure your view has the access (define it in the top of the activity/fragment):
#Override
public void onStart() {
yourView.requestFocus();
showSoftKeyboard(yourView);
super.onStart();
}
public void showSoftKeyboard(View view) {
if(view.requestFocus()){
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)mContext.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(view,InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
}
}