Soft keyboard does not show when Activity starts?

I believe its kind of bugged , read this : stackoverflow.com/questions/1509719/andr....

1 It works when I set "Keyboard Support" to false on the Emulator. Here's the key part from the discussion you referred: "Typically the emulator runs as a device that has a keyboard, in which case the system deliberately does not automatically show the IME because the user has easy access to a real keyboard. " – Sarp Centel Apr 26 '10 at 14:02 This is interesting , I even tried InputMethodManager.showSoftInput() , the requested view gets focused but the KB still remains hidden/off.

Infact I even setup a textview which won't get focus and setup a setOnFocusChangeListener to show the KB when the textview won't have focus but it did not work too . I am out of ideas :P – Ravi Vyas Apr 26 '10 at 18:40.

Solution 1 : write following code inside onCreate() method of activity InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) SearchActivity.this. GetSystemService(Context. INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); if (imm!

= null){ imm. ToggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager. SHOW_FORCED,0); } solution 2 : create following method and call from onCreate() private void showVirturalKeyboard(){ Timer timer = new Timer(); timer.

Schedule(new TimerTask() { @Override public void run() { InputMethodManager m = (InputMethodManager) SearchActivity.this. GetSystemService(Context. INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); if(m!

= null){ // m. ToggleSoftInput(0, InputMethodManager. HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS); m.

ToggleSoftInput(0, InputMethodManager. SHOW_IMPLICIT); } } }, 100); }.

Try adding this to the activities onCreate() method this.getWindow(). SetSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams. SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE).

It didn't help, I'm already setting it via manifest anyway. – Sarp Centel Apr 26 '10 at 13:47 Have you tried not setting it at all? I had the opposite problem, I didn't want the soft keyboard to appear when the screen showed first but it semed to be the default setting that it did – Donal Rafferty Apr 26 '10 at 14:46.

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