Show soft keyboard when Activity starts?

What worked best for me is in Android Manifest for activity B adding android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible Hope that helps for you as well.

What worked best for me is in Android Manifest for activity B adding android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible" Hope that helps for you as well.

1 I should note that so far, this works well for the Nexus One running 2.2 but some of the Motorola devices such as Milestone with 2.1 seem to ignore this. – Leo Feb 9 at 21:14.

If requestFocus on an EditText isn't showing it, maybe this'll do it: InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService( Context. INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm. ShowSoftInput(mEditText, 0); Look here for more information.

1 I tried that, but it didn't work – Al. Mar 18 '10 at 16:04 This works for me – fredley Jan 11 at 12:28.

Try something similar to this: public void onResume() { super.onResume(); TimerTask tt = new TimerTask() { @Override public void run() { InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context. INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm. ShowSoftInput(yourTextBox, InputMethodManager.

SHOW_IMPLICIT); } }; final Timer timer = new Timer(); timer. Schedule(tt, 200); }.

If you're using an emulator, you have to turn the hard keyboard off in order for the soft keyboard to show.

When A starts, it checks for a condition and if true, it calls startActivityForResult() to start B. B only takes text input so it makes sense for the soft keyboard to automatically pop up when B start. When the activity starts, the EditText already has focus and it ready for input.

The problem is that the keyboard never shows up, even with windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible" set in the manifest under the tag for B. I also tried with the value set to stateVisible. Since it doesn't show up automatically, I have to tap the EditText to make it show.

Anyone know what the solution might be?

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