I want to automatically show the soft-keyboard when an EditText
is focused (if the device does not have a physical keyboard) and I have two problems:
When my Activity
is displayed, my EditText
is focused but the keyboard is not displayed, I need to click again on it to show the keyboard (it should be displayed when my Activity
is displayed).
And when I click done on the keyboard, the keyboard is dissmissed but the EditText
stays focused and y don't want (because my edit is done).
To resume, my problem is to have something more like on the iPhone: which keep the keyboard sync with my EditText
state (focused / not focused) and of course does not present a soft-keyboard if there is a physical one.
To force the soft keyboard to appear, you can use
EditText yourEditText= (EditText) findViewById(R.id.yourEditText);
yourEditText.requestFocus();
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(yourEditText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
And for removing the focus on EditText
, sadly you need to have a dummy View
to grab focus.
I hope this helps
To close it you can use
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(yourEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);
This works for using it in a dialog
public void showKeyboard(){
InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputMethodManager.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);
}
public void closeKeyboard(){
InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputMethodManager.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);
}