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Parth Anjaria
Parth Anjaria

Reputation: 3971

Keyboard should show always and should not minimize until i press back

I have a chat feature in my application. everything is working fine. The problem i am facing is that i have an edittext and a button for sending the text. Now when i press the send button the keyboard comes down which i don't want. Because it is very annoying for the user to open the keyboard after sending every message. Does anyone have any solution for this. it is a very silly issue but it is quite important for me. and is there any change in xml or manifest which we can make which will help solve this problem

Upvotes: 3

Views: 116

Answers (4)

Rahul
Rahul

Reputation: 510

if you return true from your onEditorAction method, action is not going to be handled again. In this case you can return true to not hide keyboard when action is EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE.

Hope it will help !

Upvotes: 0

Emzor
Emzor

Reputation: 1368

According to this answer.

EditText txtEdit = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.txtEdit);
txtEdit.setOnEditorActionListener(new OnEditorActionListener() {

  public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
    if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE) {
      // your additional processing... 
      return true;
    } else {
      return false;
    }
  }

});

Let me know if it solves your problem.

Upvotes: 0

Pradeep Gupta
Pradeep Gupta

Reputation: 1770

Try the below code:

@Override
public boolean onKeyPreIme(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
    if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) {
        // User has pressed Back key. So hide the keyboard
        InputMethodManager mgr = (InputMethodManager) mContext.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        mgr.hideSoftInputFromWindow(this.getWindowToken(), 0);
        // TODO: Hide your view as you do it in your activity
    } else if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_MENU) {
        // Eat the event
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

Upvotes: 1

Shashank Udupa
Shashank Udupa

Reputation: 2223

I was faced with the same thing in one of my project's. Try doing this to show keyboard

private void showKeyboard(){
    InputMethodManager imgr = (InputMethodManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imgr.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY);
    yourEditText.requestFocus();
}

This makes the keyboard go down only when back is pressed.

Upvotes: 0

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