How to prevent keypad from hiding like whatsapp while click on send button and make continuous focus on edit text in android

Question

I want to prevent soft keypad from hiding from edittext while click on send button in my messaging app like in whatsapp while we click on send button but softkeypad does not disappear I have tried to requestfocus on edit text and showing keypad but it shakes keypad like it goes down and then come up. Please can any one help me regarding this issue.

Answer 1

Try this in onCreate, it will forcely open softkeyboard-

 ((InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY);

To hide it, use below code-

((InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).hideSoftInputFromWindow(_pay_box_helper.getWindowToken(), 0)

In your manifest-

<activity android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible" ... />

Answer 2

Give android:nextFocusDown to same EditText id.

<EditText
                android:id="@+id/loginPassword"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:hint="@string/password"
                android:imeOptions="actionSend"
                android:nextFocusDown="@id/loginPassword"
                android:inputType="textPassword" />