Having Trouble with Soft Keyboard

Question

Hi Everyone iam new to Android and stuck in really silly problem in my project i have one EditText which is defined in Header View of a List View whenever users touches the EditText soft keyboard will be displayed. i have something called clear button which clears the EditText After clearing soft keyboard is not displaying in 2.3 devices.Whenever i press lock/power button lock the device and unlock then soft keyboard is displaying

<activity
        android:name=".pl.Mobile.AddJobNew"
        android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"
        android:screenOrientation="landscape"
        android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustResize|adjustPan"
         >

Here is My Activity Declaration in Android for android:windowSoftInputMode : 'adjustResize' option working perfectly for Android 2.3 devices but failed in 4.0 devices where soft keyboard overlapping over edit text . option 'adjustPan' is workin good in 4.0 devices but failed in 2.3 devices

Please help me get out of this problem.

Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

Try this in the activity with the edit text:

int currentapiVersion = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
if (currentapiVersion >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH){
// Do something for 4.0 and above versions
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_PAN);
} 
else{
// do something for phones running an SDK before 4.0
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_RESIZE);
}

Also remove,

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustResize|adjustPan"

From your activity in the manifest file.

Build.Version

Answer 2

I think that the problem is that when you click the clear button, the editText looses its focus so the keyboard hides itself.

I would try 2 things to solve it;

1. after you clean the text, do:

   yourEditTextField.requestFocus()

2. manually control the keyboard visibility:

   public void showKeyboard(){ View view = getWindow().getCurrentFocus(); if (view==null) return;

   InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
   imm.showSoftInput(view, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
   

   }

   public void hideKeyboard(){ View view = getWindow().getCurrentFocus(); if (view==null) return;

   IBinder binder = view.getWindowToken();
   if (binder == null)
       return;
   
    // prevent a bug in some keyboards that makes the text hang on the screen
   if (view instanceof EditText) 
       ((EditText)view).setText(((EditText)view).getText().toString());
   
   
   InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
   imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(binder, InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
   

   }