Android TextField : set focus + soft input programmatically

Question

In my view, I have a search EditText and I would like to trigger programmatically the behaviour of a click event on the field, i.e 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 ?

Answer 1

Good sir, try this:

edittext.setFocusableInTouchMode(true); edittext.requestFocus(); 

I'm 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); 

Answer 2

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 ;)