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Temporary EditText and keyboard on bottom of screen

I'm trying to create EditText on bottom of screen and open keyboard (then this EditText will move above keyboard with RelativeLayout + ALIGN_PARENT_BOTTOM), it works fine with SetContentView but with addContentView the RelativeLayout + ALIGN_PARENT_BOTTOM doesn't work for me and the keyboard overlap the EditText.
In some way I want to generate this temporary EditText independently the layout being displayed on screen, so If I press any button on any layout I call this function to create a temporary EditText on bottom of screen and bring the keyboard.
I can't change the whole main layout because this layout is generated by Unity3D. I need a way to generate this EditText and act independently the layout is being displayed on screen.
My code:
public void openInput()
{
runOnUiThread(new Runnable()
{
EditText inputName = new EditText(context);
inputName.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);
inputName.setFilters(new InputFilter[] { new InputFilter.LengthFilter(40)} );
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams editTextParams = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(600, RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
editTextParams.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_BOTTOM);
editTextParams.addRule(RelativeLayout.CENTER_HORIZONTAL);
RelativeLayout relativeLayout = new RelativeLayout(context);
relativeLayout.addView(inputName, editTextParams);
addContentView(relativeLayout, new ViewGroup.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));
inputName.requestFocus();
InputMethodManager msg = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
msg.showSoftInput(inputName, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
});
}
Any idea how to solve this issue?
Thanks

put your whole layout in a scroll view, (as your set contentview)
and then when you do addContentView the layout will scroll up to the focused view, rather than push the view up

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alertDialog.show();
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Addition
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In the xml i have already given it as android:inputType="number"
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The on click method----
case R.id.txtPhoneNo:
hintPhoneNum.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
phoneNum.setVisibility(View.GONE);
edtPhoneNum.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
edtPhoneNum.requestFocus();
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The correct answer is
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(
Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.toggleSoftInput(0, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);

for your EditText add the following XML:
android:inputType="number"
EDIT
Try requesting focus just after your textView was set invisible:
yourTextView.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE); //or View.GONE
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I want to create context menu as follows , i am sure this is not traditional the context menu , its a kind of alert dialog which is being customized.
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I have gone through the followig tutorial which has custom context menu , is it possible
to use this code to set a footer
http://www.tanisoft.net/search/label/Tutorial
I want following features , preciously the checkbox in the footer
EDIT
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1) Dialog Title Icon
2) Dialog Bottom Blue Color ( which is a default
color of android )
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Can we have an edit text box inside our menu which gets displayed in the action bar
and if we can then how can we get click events on this edit text ?

I found the solution. It is done like this (only for android 3.0 honeycomb)
Placing an edit text in action bar
for placing the items
use this TAG in your item in the menu xml
android:actionLayout="#layout/search_bar"
define edit text & button in the search_bar layout.
Now for getting listeners on them do it like this -
in onCreateOptionsMenu()
et = (EditText) menu.findItem(R.id.search_bar).getActionView().findViewById(R.id.searchbar);
findBtn = (ImageButton)menu.findItem(R.id.search_bar).getActionView().findViewById(R.id.find);
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You can add a search bar to the action bar but not as a menu item... what do you even meen with "as a menu item"?

I havent tried it but are you able to use actionlayout from code? in that way you could use get the Text box this way:
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LinearLayout wrapper = (LinearLayout) inflater.inflate(R.layout.random_layout, null);
EditText editText = (EditText )wrapper.findViewById(R.id.edit);
//
//code to set the listener
//
//
//set the android:actionLayout to wrapper etc.
//
Im at work so I can't make some research so this is just speculations...