Android: show soft keyboard automatically when focus is on an EditText?

You can create a focus listener on the EditText on the AlertDialog then get the AlertDialog s Window From there you can make the soft keyboard show by calling setSoftInputMode final AlertDialog dialog = ...; editText. SetOnFocusChangeListener(new View. OnFocusChangeListener() { @Override public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) { if (hasFocus) { dialog.getWindow().

SetSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams. SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE); } } }).

You can create a focus listener on the EditText on the AlertDialog, then get the AlertDialog's Window. From there you can make the soft keyboard show by calling setSoftInputMode. Final AlertDialog dialog = ...; editText.

SetOnFocusChangeListener(new View. OnFocusChangeListener() { @Override public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) { if (hasFocus) { dialog.getWindow(). SetSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.

SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE); } } }).

1 How would I do it using the AlertDialog. Builder? ...final AlertDialog.

Builder alert = new AlertDialog. Builder(Main. This); – Stephen Jan 25 at 18:02 Doesn't work for me - Nexus S.

Tried before and after the show(). – kilaka Aug 4 at 16:43 Doesn't work for me, either. My dialog contains a ListView and I add this listener from its Adapter.

– Yulia Rogovaya Aug 5 at 9:43 Doesn't work for me either. – esilver Aug 17 at 8:57 @Stephen you can get the dialog from the builder by using final AlertDialog dialog = builder.create() and then showon the dialog instead of the builder. – tidbeck Oct 11 at 9:38.

Take a look at this discussion which handles manually hiding and showing the IME. However, my feeling is that if a focused EditText is not bringing the IME up it is because you are calling AlertDialog.show() in your OnCreate() or some other method which is evoked before the screen is actually presented. Moving it to OnPostResume() should fix it in that case I believe.

I had the same problem and solved it with the following code. I'm not sure how it will behave on a phone with hardware keyboard. // TextEdit final EditText textEdit = new EditText(this); // Builder AlertDialog.

Builder alert = new AlertDialog. Builder(this); alert. SetTitle("Enter text"); alert.

SetView(textEdit); alert. SetPositiveButton("Ok", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) { String text = textEdit.getText().toString(); finish(); } }); alert. SetNegativeButton("Cancel", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) { finish(); } }); // Dialog AlertDialog dialog = alert.create(); dialog.

SetOnShowListener(new OnShowListener() { @Override public void onShow(DialogInterface dialog) { InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context. INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm. ShowSoftInput(textEdit, InputMethodManager.

SHOW_IMPLICIT); } }); dialog.show().

I don't see setOnShowListener on the AlertDialog at all....? – Ted Oct 20 at 12:52 It's in the Dialog class API level 8. – tidbeck Oct 21 at 14:19.

The original question concerns Dialogs and my EditText is on a regular view. Anyhow, I suspect this should work for most of you too. So here's what works for me (the above suggested highest rated method did nothing for me).

Here's a custom EditView that does this (subclassing is not necessary, but I found it convenient for my purposes as I wanted to also grab the focus when the view becomes visible). This is actually largely the same as the tidbecks answer. I actually didn't notice hes answer at all as it had zero up votes.

Then I was about to just comment he's post, but it would have been too long, so I ended doing this post anyways. Tidbeck points out that he's unsure how it works with devices having keyboards. I can confirm that the behaviour seems to be exactly the same in either case.

That being such that on portrait mode the software keyboard gets popped up and on landscape it doesn't. Having the physical keyboard slid out or not makes no difference on my phone. Because, I personally found the behaviour a bit awkward I opted for using: InputMethodManager.

SHOW_FORCED. This works as I wanted it to work. The keyboard becomes visible regardless of the orientation, however, at least on my device it doesn't pop up if the hardware keyboard has been slid out.

Import android.app. Service; import android.content. Context; import android.util.

AttributeSet; import android.view. View; import android.view.inputmethod. InputMethodManager; import android.widget.

EditText; public class BringOutTheSoftInputOnFocusEditTextView extends EditText { protected InputMethodManager inputMethodManager; public BringOutTheSoftInputOnFocusEditTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) { super(context, attrs, defStyle); init(); } public BringOutTheSoftInputOnFocusEditTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) { super(context, attrs); init(); } public BringOutTheSoftInputOnFocusEditTextView(Context context) { super(context); init(); } private void init() { this. InputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager)getContext(). GetSystemService(Service.

INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); this. SetOnFocusChangeListener(new View. OnFocusChangeListener() { @Override public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) { if (hasFocus) { BringOutTheSoftInputOnFocusEditTextView.this.

InputMethodManager. ShowSoftInput(BringOutTheSoftInputOnFocusEditTextView. This, InputMethodManager.

SHOW_FORCED); } } }); } @Override protected void onVisibilityChanged(View changedView, int visibility) { super. OnVisibilityChanged(changedView, visibility); if (visibility == View. VISIBLE) { BringOutTheSoftInputOnFocusEditTextView.this.requestFocus(); } } }.

You can request a soft keyboard right after creating the dialog final AlertDialog dialog = ...; dialog.getWindow(). SetSoftInputMode( WindowManager.LayoutParams. SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE.

If you are not getting the result for the above solution, then you can open the keyboard by forcing it, I saw the coding on this site android-codes-examples.blogspot.com/2011....

You can create a focus listener on the EditText on the AlertDialog then get the AlertDialog 's Window . From there you can make the soft keyboard show by calling setSoftInputMode .

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