Tapping form field in WebView does not show soft keyboard

Question

I created my own WebView and set the WebChromeClient and WebViewClient objects. When I start this WebView, the HTML form fields react when I touch them (a cursor appears), but they do not get selected, nor does the soft keyboard start. If I use the trackball to choose the form and press it, the keyboard does appear.

I tried to call myWebview.requestFocusFromTouch() as this answer suggested, but it returns false and doesn't help.

Answer 1

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7189

Here is a fix in case other were not clear.

    webview.requestFocus(View.FOCUS_DOWN);     webview.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {         @Override         public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {             switch (event.getAction()) {                 case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:                 case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:                     if (!v.hasFocus()) {                         v.requestFocus();                     }                     break;             }             return false;         }     });