How to force keyboard to show/hide?

Question

I tried to show keyboard after I inflate LinearLayout and call setContentView like:

InputMethodManager mgr = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
mgr.showSoftInput(etContent, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
getContent.requestFocus();

It didn't work. I also tried this:

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);

But it also didn't work. How can I force the keyboard to show/hide? What did I do wrong?

Exact duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1109022/how-to-close-hide-the-android-soft-keyboard and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2479504/forcing-the-soft-keyboard-open — Polynomial, Nov 14 '11 at 15:28

score 34 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 07 '13 at 08:42

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This should work

public class KeyBoard {

    public static void toggle(Activity activity){
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        if (imm.isActive()){
            imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0); // hide
        } else {
            imm.toggleSoftInput(0, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY); // show
        }
    }//end method
}//end class

answered Sep 07 '13 at 08:42

slinden77

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Nice answer still it worth :) – Charuක Jan 02 '17 at 14:34
Saved my time... Its working... – khaleel_jageer Aug 19 '19 at 06:40

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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this link is clear about hiding the soft keyboard. to show it you can use a hack - create an EditText anywhere in your layout, layout_width and layout_height=0dip, and in onCreate do

yourEditText.requestFocus();

edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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answered Nov 14 '11 at 16:11

josephus

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How to force keyboard to show/hide?

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