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dougM
dougM

Reputation: 87

Keyboard does not appear for EditText in View

My application has started to behave strangely, so I think there must have been a change that I am not grasping. I have an EditText in a RelativeLayout with a requestFocus attribute. For months I would open my app and execute an initialize method and then touch the edit text and the keyboard would appear. Now the keyboard does not appear. I have tried to set an onClick Listener and onFocusChange with the InputMethodManager using:

m.showSoftInput(amountEditText, 0);

and also with 

m.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);

Since this is new, unexpected behavior, I am afraid that there was something I changed that caused this odd behavior. I have looked at the XML and the WYSIWYG for the view and cannot see anything wrong. The SO answers all seem to have much more complex situations that this so I think something more basic is at fault. Anyone seen this before?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 104

Answers (2)

Alberto Maluje
Alberto Maluje

Reputation: 126

Sometime ago I was facing a similar problem. One way to force the keyboard to be shown is this way:

    //here my EditText is called editText_search
    InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    inputMethodManager.toggleSoftInputFromWindow(editText_search.getApplicationWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);

    editText_search.requestFocus();

Also, as Simon Marquis pointed out, see if you're blocking or hiding the keyboard in your Manifest.

Hope it helps.

Upvotes: 1

Simon Marquis
Simon Marquis

Reputation: 7526

Try this method:

public static void showSoftkeyboard(android.view.View view, ResultReceiver resultReceiver) {
    Configuration config = view.getContext().getResources().getConfiguration();
    if (config.hardKeyboardHidden == Configuration.HARDKEYBOARDHIDDEN_YES) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) view.getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        if (resultReceiver != null) {
            imm.showSoftInput(view, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT, resultReceiver);
        } else {
            imm.showSoftInput(view, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
        }
    }
}

Also, check your AndroidManifest.xml if you didn't disable the softKeyboard for your Activity.

Upvotes: 1

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