android softkeyboard showSoftInput vs toggleSoftInput

Question

showSoftInput() doesn't show the keyboard for me, but toggleSoftInput() does. I saw some other post that said to disable the hard keyboard when using the emulator, but I'm not using an emulator. I'm loading my APK on an actual device with no hard keyboard. Shouldn't both methods work? Why doesn't showSoftInput() work? I would like to explicitly associate the keyboard with a specific text field.

Doesn't work:

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); editText.setText("textchange"); //i see the text field update imm.showSoftInput(editText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED); 

Works:

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getDelegate().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED,0); 

Answer 1

Show Keyboard + focus and also if you want to Hide the keyboard

@Override public void onResume () {     super.onResume();      inputSearch.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);     inputSearch.requestFocus();      // Show Keyboard     InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSherlockActivity().getSystemService(             Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);     imm.showSoftInput(inputSearch, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT); } 

P.S inputSearch = (EditText) getSherlockActivity().findViewById(R.id.inputSearch);

    // Hide Keyboard InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSherlockActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(inputSearch.getWindowToken(), 0); 

Answer 2

It seems that the keyboard is initially displayed but hidden by something else, because the following works (but is actually a dirty work-around):

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); editText.postDelayed(new Runnable() {     @Override     public void run()     {         editText.requestFocus();         imm.showSoftInput(editText, 0);     } }, 100); 

And when looking at logcat I suspect the cause behind this message hides the keyboard initially shown:

Hide Clipboard dialog at Starting input: finished by someone else... !