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Keyboard auto on in Android

I want to implement a tablet in Android app that keyboard auto on the screen. Now my situation is I add a edit-text in a xml file, and when clicking the edit-text, keyboard appears, I want to show keyboard auto on.
When users click on the check mark, the keyboard disappears, but I want that keyboard will not be dismissed and clicking on check mark means checking the input.
Any samples or help is appreciated!

Use below method with activity
//To show the keyboard
public void showKeyboard(Activity activity) {
if(activity.getCurrentFocus()!=null) {
InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputMethodManager.showSoftInputFromInputMethod(activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
}
}
//To hide the keyboard
public void hideKeyboard(Activity activity) {
if(activity.getCurrentFocus()!=null) {
InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
}
}
OR
Use below method with EditText
//To show the keyboard
public void showSoftKeyboard(EditText editText) {
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(editText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
}
//To hide the keyboard
`public void hideSoftKeyboard(EditText editText) {
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.getWindowToken(), 0);
}
Use above method as per your requirement

This will work and also always try to use etText.requestfocus(); it will automatically open a keyboard
and
public static void ShowKeyboard(Activity activity, View v)
{
InputMethodManager inputMethodManager =
(InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputMethodManager.toggleSoftInputFromWindow(
view.getApplicationWindowToken(),
InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);
}

Check with this:
Add this on your checkbox click
To Show Soft Keyboard:
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(EDITABLE_VIEW,InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
OR
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED,0);
To Hide Soft Keyboard:
InputMethodManager imm = InputMethodManager)
getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(FOCUSABLE_VIEW.getWindowToken(), 0);
Here, “FOCUSABLE_VIEW” can be any view which is visible on screen like
Refer:http://chintanrathod.com/show-hide-soft-keyboard-programmatically-in-android/

Below are the methods to show and hide keyboard. Have a look.
public static void ShowKeyboard(Activity activity, View view) {
InputMethodManager inputMethodManager =
(InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputMethodManager.toggleSoftInputFromWindow(
view.getApplicationWindowToken(),
InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);
}
public static void HideKeyBoard(Activity activity) {
try {
InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
if (inputMethodManager.isAcceptingText())
inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
If you want to open keyboard on activity start, you can add following code in <activity> tag in manifest:
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible"
this will show the keyboard whenever you start activity.

You can use the following code,
editext.requestfocus();
this will automatically brings the keyboard.
Do not use,
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"
inside your android manifest file...
just remove "android:windowSoftInputMode" from your Activity.

Software Keyboard doesn't appear the first time the fragment is loaded

I've been trying to automatically show the keyboard with focus on a edit text when a fragment(that includes the edittext) is loaded.
I've tried using :
editTextPrice.requestFocus();
InputMethodManager imgr = (InputMethodManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imgr.showSoftInput(getView(), InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
But this doesn't work the first time I load the fragment. The focus is set and I can see the cursor but no keyboard appears. If I close the fragment and add it again it works.
If tried everything from post() to a postpone it with a handler, to onResume,ect.
Does anybody have an idea what might cause this to happen?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards

let me explain why keyboard is not opening when we load a fragment the view cannot get focused, so we need set focus to the view in a separate thread, Then after we need to open keyBoard
void showKeyboard(Context mContext, View view)
{
if (mContext != null && view != null && view.requestFocus())
{
InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) mContext.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(view, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
}
}
This above function is to open keyboard
editTextPrice.postDelayed(() -> {
editTextPrice.requestFocus();
showKeyboard(getContext(), editTextPrice);
}, 300);

android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
And
EditText yourEditText= (EditText) findViewById(R.id.yourEditText);
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(yourEditText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);

you try using 2 function below:
fun hideKeyBoard(context: Context, view: View) {
val inputMethodManager = context.getSystemService(
Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
}
fun showKeyBoard(context: Context, view: View) {
val inputMethodManager = context.getSystemService(
Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(view, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT)
}

Do not request focus from java code. Do it from the xml itself like
android:focusable="true"
also do the following in the manifest file
<activity android:name=".YourActivity"
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible" />

Android webview. Keyboard hide

When clicking on shows the keyboard. When you click on another area of the screen keyboard is hidden. Is it possible to prevent the hide keyboard when clicking on another area of the screen?

Try this for hide keyboard
public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Activity context) {
InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) context
.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
if (inputManager != null)
inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(context.getWindow()
.getDecorView().getApplicationWindowToken(), 0);
context.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(
WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
}

Here is the code to hide the keyboard
public void hideKeyboard(View view)// pass your main view {
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.RESULT_UNCHANGED_SHOWN);
}

how to disable softkeyboard in an activity?

I want to disable keyboard pop up in my activity. There will not be any keboard in the actvity. but hardware keyboard must work.how to do this? hardware buttons must work

Just try below code.
InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editView.getWindowToken(), 0);

Use this in your manifest:
<activity android:name=".SampleActivity" android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden"/>

Managing soft keyboard in android is not that easy, although you can hide keyboard programatically.
private void hideKeyboard() {
//This will get any view in focus.
View view = this.getCurrentFocus();
if (view != null) {
InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) this.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
}
}
note that Hardware Keyboard will work.

android softkeyboard showSoftInput vs toggleSoftInput

showSoftInput() doesn't show the keyboard for me, but toggleSoftInput() does. I saw some other post that said to disable the hard keyboard when using the emulator, but I'm not using an emulator. I'm loading my APK on an actual device with no hard keyboard. Shouldn't both methods work? Why doesn't showSoftInput() work? I would like to explicitly associate the keyboard with a specific text field.
Doesn't work:
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
editText.setText("textchange"); //i see the text field update
imm.showSoftInput(editText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
Works:
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getDelegate().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED,0);

It seems that the keyboard is initially displayed but hidden by something else, because the following works (but is actually a dirty work-around):
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
editText.postDelayed(new Runnable()
{
#Override
public void run()
{
editText.requestFocus();
imm.showSoftInput(editText, 0);
}
}, 100);
And when looking at logcat I suspect the cause behind this message hides the keyboard initially shown:
Hide Clipboard dialog at Starting input: finished by someone else... !

Show Keyboard + focus and also if you want to Hide the keyboard
#Override
public void onResume () {
super.onResume();
inputSearch.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
inputSearch.requestFocus();
// Show Keyboard
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSherlockActivity().getSystemService(
Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(inputSearch, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
}
P.S inputSearch = (EditText) getSherlockActivity().findViewById(R.id.inputSearch);
// Hide Keyboard
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSherlockActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(inputSearch.getWindowToken(), 0);

ShowSoftInput works if the imm's target view is same with the editText.
You can check this by imm.isActive(editText) or editText.isInputMethodTarget().
ToggleSoftInput is just toggling the keyboard of the current target of imm.
Target view of imm is set after the focus has been changed by editText.requestFocus(). I think some post processes exist between these two tasks since one post runnable was not enough. I tested double post and it worked for me.
editText.requestFocus();
editText.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
editText.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
if (imm != null) {
imm.showSoftInput(editText, 0);
}
}
});
}
});

The precise answer to this question why does showSoftInput doesnt work and toggleSoftInput does?
Is that the View to which you are trying to display the Keyboard doesn't have the focus. So to solve this problem and to use the method showSoftInput you will have to call the following to methods on your view:
setFocusable(true);
setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
Calling the above methods will make sure that when you click on the View retains and captures the focus.

showSoftInput() does not work when device has a hard (slide-out) keyboard
Android show softkeyboard with showSoftInput is not working?

Try this:
public void showTheKeyboard(Context context, EditText editText){
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(editText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
}
If this doesn't work read the tutorial from here

public void hideKeyboard() {
myTextView.setFocusable(true);
myTextView.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(myTextView.getWindowToken(), 0);
}
WORKS
public void hideKeyboard() {
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(myTextView.getWindowToken(), 0);
}
DOES NOT WORK
imm is dealt with earlier as I am using a Fragment so:
Declare imm in the Fragment
private InputMethodManager imm;
Then in the fragment add:
#Override
public void onActivityCreated(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
imm = (InputMethodManager)
getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
}
He says after 3 to 4 hours of research and failures !!
Thanks user_CC ! :-)
Phil

I know this post is pretty old, but for those who came for answers from this date and none of the above worked. The code below worked for me on an Activity when an Alert Dialog popped up.
InputMethodManager keyboard = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
to show keyboard:
keyboard.toggleSoftInput(editText.getPaintFlags(), 0);
to hide keyboard:
keyboard.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.getWindowToken(), 0);