I have 2 EditTexts in the MainActivity Layout. If i run the application normally the 1st EditText gets focused but the softkeyboard is not openned.
but when i used this:
public class TestingActivity extends Activity {
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
EditText et1 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText1);
EditText et2 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText2);
et2.requestFocus();
InputMethodManager mInputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
mInputMethodManager.showSoftInput(et2, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
}
}
expecting the 2nd EditText will get focus and softkeyboard will be openned.
I only get focus, but the softkeyboard is openned only when i click on the EditText.
Thank You
Try specifying the android:windowSoftInputMode attribute in your AndroidManifest.xml file for your activity.
For example:
<activity android:name=".TestingActivity" android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustResize" />
You probably don't need any of the code that uses InputMethodManager in your Activity.
I notice that one reason for the keyboard not showing up is selecting an inputtype not supported by the specific Android device. For instance InputType.TYPE_NUMBER_VARIATION_NORMAL will not work on my Asus Transformer (no keyboard shows up), while InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER will work just fine.
et2.clearFocus();
et2.requestFocus();
InputMethodManager mInputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
mInputMethodManager.showSoftInput(et2, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
I meet the problem on Android N platform and resolve it by refocusing the editview.
I don`t know the real reason why the editview should be cleared first,but it works fine for me.
Sometimes you will need to post-delay showing keyboard command, so in my case, i did the following
editText.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(editText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
}
}, 300);
For getting the focus to particular edittext just add the tag inside your edit text.
<EditText
android:id="#+id/etBox"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:hint="enter into editbox"
>
<requestFocus/>
</EditText>
I want to immediately highlight give focus to a particular edit box when the activity loads and bring up the softkeyboard. how can I do this? Also should there be anything in onStart()?
You can call : requestFocus() on the View after you do findViewByID()
You can do that in onStart - I see now reason for it not to work.
Check here too :
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html
In your layout put </requestFocus> tag inside EditText.
In onStart() call
getDialog().getWindow().setSoftInputMode(LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_VISIBLE);
Ideally this should work.
<EditText
android:id="#+id/Abc"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<requestFocus />
</EditText>
But there have been some known issues of the keyboard not popping up. See this.
You can also do this using Runnable:
public class MyActivity extends Activity {
private Handler mHandler= new Handler();
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
// get text
mHandler.post(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
text.requestFocus();
}
});
}
}
Using the getSystemService(...), one can obtain, in this case, the Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE, have a look at this code sample below for illustration:
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)context.getSystemService(
Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(edittext, 0, null);
So I've got what seems to be a common problem, which is that the EditText in my dialog box doesn't show up when it gets focus. I've seen several workarounds, such as in this thread, this one and this one (and many more), but I have never seen a satisfactory explanation for why this is happening in the first place.
I would much prefer to have android use its own default behavior for EditTexts than to build my own, but it seems like everyone (in those threads) has accepted that the default behavior for EditTexts in Dialogs is to just give a cursor and no keyboard. Why would that be?
For the record, none of these workarounds seem to be working for me - the closest I've been able to come is forcing a keyboard to appear underneath the dialog box (using InputMethodManager.toggleSoftKeyboard(*)). My particular configuration is API15, the EditText shows up in a footer on a ListView within an AlertDialog. The EditText android:focusable="true" is set, and onFocusChangeListener is receiving focus events.
Edit:
As requested, here is the specific code snippet that I'm working with. I won't bother with the whole layout, but in this specific application, the EditText appears in response to pressing a button on the dialog (similar to an action view). It is contained in a RelativeLayout which by default has visibility "gone":
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/relLay"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:visibility="gone"
android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="5dp">
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/cancelBut"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:background="#color/transparent"
android:src="#drawable/cancelButton"
android:layout_margin="5dp"/>
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/okBut"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/cancelBut"
android:background="#color/transparent"
android:src="#drawable/okButton"
android:layout_margin="5dp" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/editText"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="text"
android:focusable="true"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/okBut"/>
</RelativeLayout>
The code which builds this sets the visibility of the relativeLayout to "Visible" (and hides the other UI elements). This should be enough to pull up the keyboard when the EditText gets focused, based on my experience with EditText. However, for some reason this is not the case. I can set the following onFocusChangeListener:
edit_text.setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {
#Override
public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
// For whatever reason we need to request a soft keyboard.
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)dlg.getWindow().getContext().getSystemService(_Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
if(hasFocus)
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);
Log.v("DialogProblem", "Focus requested, " + (hasFocus?"has focus.":"doesn't have focus."));
}
}
});
Using this configuration, when I first enter the EditText, the onFocusChangedListener triggers, and generates a log that invariably looks like this:
Focus requested, has focus.
Focus requested, doesn't have focus.
Focus requested, has focus.
The keyboard shows up and then disappears, probably because I toggle it twice, but even when I make sure it stays up, it's behind the dialog window (in a greyed out area), and there's no way to get to it without closing the dialog.
That said, I'd like to emphasize that even though I may be able to get this work-around to work, I'm primarily interested in finding a simple reason why the EditText isn't triggering in the first place, and why this seems to be so commonplace!
OK, so after reading a lot, I have figured out why this is a problem, and I do not need to use any workarounds.
The problem seems to be (at least in my case), that since the place where you enter text is hidden initially (or nested or something), AlertDialog is automatically setting the flag WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM (or some combination of that and WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE) so that things don't trigger a soft input to show up.
The way that I've found to fix this is to add the following line after the dialog has been created:
dialog.getWindow().clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE|WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);
Once this is done, the EditText acts like a normal EditText, no kludges or workarounds necessary.
I have the same problem in my own app. If you are developing for API level >= 8 you can use this snippet:
dialog.setOnShowListener(new OnShowListener() {
#Override
public void onShow(DialogInterface dialog) {
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(textEdit, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
}
});
I haven't found a solution for lower API levels...
BTW: This snippet doesn't always work on emulator. I don't know why.
If you read the AlertDialog documentation you'll find there:
The AlertDialog class takes care of automatically setting *WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM* for you based on whether any views in the dialog return true from View.onCheckIsTextEditor(). Generally you want this set for a Dialog without text editors, so that it will be placed on top of the current input method UI. You can modify this behavior by forcing the flag to your desired mode after calling onCreate.
I had the problem you've mentioned with EditText in ListView inside a Dialog. I fixed it by overwriting the custom view class (in my case ListView) with my own FocusableListView, with just one method overwritten:
public class FocusableListView extends ListView {
public FocusableListView(Context context) {
super(context);
}
public FocusableListView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
}
public FocusableListView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
super(context, attrs, defStyle);
}
#Override
public boolean onCheckIsTextEditor() {
// this is where the magic happens
return true;
}
}
Then I'm using it in the layout file as:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<com.myexample.wiget.FocusableListView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
You can overwrite the RelativeLayout in your case the same way and it should work.
This is what worked for me. Create the AlertDialog.Builder, set title, positiveButton, negativeButton. After do this:
AlertDialog dialog = builder.create();
dialog.getWindow().clearFlags( WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE |WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);
dialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_VISIBLE);
dialog.show();
editText.requestFocus();
You don't need to use builder.show();.
The code above is very helpfull. But you must call the "show" method after the "create" method (I don't know why, but only this works in my dialog with EditText in ListView).
In method onCreateDialog:
#Override
protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id) {
switch (id) {
case YOUR_DIALOG_ID: {
//...
AlertDialog a = new AlertDialog.Builder(this)./*
... set the properties here
*/
.create();
a.show(); //!!! this is very important to call the "show" method
a.getWindow().clearFlags(
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE
| WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);
return a;
}
//...
}
return null;
}
Thank you! I have an embedded TextEdit in the last row of ListView embedded in the alert dialog fragment. I used your solution of clearing the flags as a post runnable and now it works perfectly.
#Override
public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(getContext());
builder.setTitle("My Title");
m_adapter = new MyAdapter(getContext());
builder.setAdapter(m_adapter, new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
});
final AlertDialog dialog = builder.create();
final ListView listView = dialog.getListView();
listView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
#Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
int position, long id) {
}
});
listView.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
dialog.getWindow().clearFlags(
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE |
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);
}
});
return dialog;
}
Here's one way to do it:
final Window dialogWindow = dialog.getWindow();
dialogWindow.clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE | WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);
dialogWindow.setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
I would like to add on to Paul's answer and Alexander's comment.
I myself have a dialog that's created in the onCreateDialog() method, which (seems to) require returning dialog.show();, wherefore you can not add the layoutparams to the dialog where the dialog is created. To work around this, just keep your onCreateDialog() method the same, and add an onResume() method as follows:
#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);
}
This should do the trick, it works for me, thankfully. Have been on this case for quite some while.
full code for showing the keyboard in dialog:
public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
Log.v("onFocusChange", hasFocus + " " + showkeyboard);
if (hasFocus) {
if (showkeyboard++ == 0) {
alertDialog.getWindow().clearFlags(
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE
| WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);
alertDialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(
WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
} else {
showkeyboard = 1;
}
}
}
This worked for me ----
editText.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
//dialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_RESIZE);
//dialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
//dialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_VISIBLE);
//dialog.getWindow().clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE | WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);
InputMethodManager mgr = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
mgr.showSoftInput(v, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
editText.setFocusable(true);
}
});
just add below codeLine:
// to show keyboard automatically while editText is in dialog
dialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode (WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
I am very new to developping Android application and I am facing a
difficulty.
What I want to do is to use a specific keyboard when I click on an
EditText. So far, I have found the Keyboard and KeyboardView
classes but I haven't succeeded to do what I want yet.
Here is the description of where I am :
I have described my keyboard in a XML file,
I create a "KeyboardView" object,
I initialize it with clavier=new KeyboardView(activité,
(AttributeSet)findViewById(R.xml.clavier_numerique));
but I don't know how to replace the standard keyboard with this
customized keyboard.
Am I doing something wrong? What else should I do?
Thanks in advance for the time you will spend trying to help me.
You should use something like this:
//retrieve the keyboard view from xml
kbdV= (KeyboardView) findViewById(R.id.kbd);
//set the keyboard layout to the layout you defined in res/xml/keyboard_layout.xml
kbdV.setKeyboard(new Keyboard(this,R.xml.keyboard_layout)); //defines the keyboard layout
//add a keyboard action listener
kbdV.setOnKeyboardActionListener(new KeyboardView.OnKeyboardActionListener(){
public void onKey(int primaryCode, int[] keyCodes) {
handlePress(primaryCode, keyCodes); // callback to handle keypresses
}
public void onPress(int primaryCode) {}
public void onRelease(int primaryCode) {}
public void onText(CharSequence text) {}
public void swipeDown() {}
public void swipeLeft() {}
public void swipeRight() {}
public void swipeUp() {}
});
with a layout xml file similar to this :
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<!-- your widgets here -->
<KeyboardView android:id="#+id/kbd" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</LinearLayout>
At first you should decide what you want from keyboard:
if you just want to change to numbers you can do that by the first answer from Macarse
if you want a complete customized keyboard you should use Keyboard and KeyboardView classes by a second project
You need to specify an inputType in the xml:
<EditText android:inputType="textUri"/>
or from the code doing:
EditText input;
input.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);
You can read the available inputTypes here.
When you initialize it with clavier=new KeyboardView(activity,
(AttributeSet)findViewById(R.xml.clavier_numerique),EditText edit);
You can transfer the EditText object in. And hide the standard keyboard，show the customized KeyboardView like this.
public void showKeyboard() {
if (edit != null) {
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)mActivity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(edit.getWindowToken(), 0);
}
keyboardView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
keyboardView.setEnabled(true);
}
I am facing a strange problem.
My app works fine in 2.1 (emulator + device). But, when I use 2.2
(both emulator + device) then there is an issue with the soft
keyboard.
There is a Activity in landscape mode in the app (use
android:screenOrientation="landscape").
There are two EditText in that Activity. But, soft keyboard is not
displaying for those. In fact, softkeyboard seems to apprear, but as a
bar in the bottom.
Please view the screenshot.
Any help will be appreciated.
Regards
Sarwar Erfan
tried different things for android:windowSoftInputMode , did not work
<Activity android:name=".PriceCalculator"
android:screenOrientation="landscape"
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible|adjustPan"
android:configChanges="orientation"
android:label="Pricing Calculator">
....
</Activity>
<EditText
android:id="#+id/adhesiveUnitPrice"
android:inputType="numberDecimal"
android:imeOptions="actionDone|flagNoExtractUi"
android:layout_column="4" android:gravity="right"/>
I found out that, in 2.3, the softkeyboard wont show up in landscape mode if the emulator or the device has an hardware keyboard.
I had a similar problem with my code (see example here bellow). FYI, replacing "InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT" by "InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED" solved the issue.
public class Main extends Activity {
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
EditText et = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.et);
et.setFocusableInTouchMode(false);
final Context context = this;
et.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
v.requestFocusFromTouch();
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(v, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
}
});
}
}