Android TextField : set focus + soft input programmatically
In my view, I have a search EditText and I would like to trigger programmatically the behaviour of a click event on the field, ie give focus to the text field AND display soft keyboard if necessary (if no hard keyboard available).
I tried field.requestFocus() . The field actually gets focus but soft keyboard is not displayed.
I tried field.performClick() . But that only calls the OnClickListener of the field.
Any idea ?
Good sir, try this:
edittext.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
edittext.requestFocus();
Im not sure, but this might be required on some phones (some of the older devices):
final InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) context
.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(edittext, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
Here is the code that worked for me.
edittext.post(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
edittext.requestFocusFromTouch();
InputMethodManager lManager = (InputMethodManager)getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
lManager.showSoftInput(edittext, 0);
}
});
That's it! Enjoy ;)
The following code worked for me , after the other two answers didn't work for me :
@Override
public void onResume() {
super.onResume();
SingletonBus.INSTANCE.getBus().register(this);
//passwordInput.requestFocus(); <-- that doesn't work
passwordInput.postDelayed(new ShowKeyboard(), 300); //250 sometimes doesn't run if returning from LockScreen
}
Where ShowKeyboard is
private class ShowKeyboard implements Runnable {
@Override
public void run() {
passwordInput.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
// passwordInput.requestFocusFromTouch();
passwordInput.requestFocus();
getActivity().getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
((InputMethodManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).showSoftInput(passwordInput, 0);
}
}
After a successful input, I also make sure I hide the keyboard
getActivity().getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN);
((InputMethodManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE))
.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getView().getWindowToken(), 0);
Technically, I just added 300 ms of delay before running the soft keyboard display request. Weird, right? Also changed requestFocus() to requestFocusFromTouch() .
EDIT: Don't use requestFocusFromTouch() it gives a touch event to the launcher. Stick with requestFocus() .
EDIT2: In Dialogs ( DialogFragment ), use the following
getDialog().getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
instead of
getActivity().getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);