How can I make the Android emulator show the soft keyboard

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I m debugging an issue with the soft keyboard display not displaying when it should   However  I don t have a device handy for testing   The problem is that the emulator never shows the soft keyboard   Some skins have a keyboard constantly displayed on the right  some don t  but none that I ve tried so far has ever shown a keyboard on the device screen   Is there some setting that I missed

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There is a bug in the new version of NOX app  Software keyboard doesn t work after switching to it in settings  To fix this  I installed Gboard using the Play Market

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Settings   Language  amp  input   Current keyboard   Hardware Switch ON    It allows you to use your physical keyboard for input while at the same time showing the soft keyboard  I just tested it on Android Lollipop and it works

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Edit your virtual device using AVD  Press the  show advance setting  button to show more option scroll down to the bottom and check  Enable keyboard input  press  finish  button at the bottom corner of your window then start the emulator device that you just set up  inside the emulator   go to the  Settings  -   Language  amp  Input  and in the  Keyboard  amp  Input Methods  -   Default  then  choose input method  is shown and switch off  Hardware Physical Keyboard  toggle button

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If you re using AVD manager add a hardware property Keyboard support and set it to false   That should disable the shown keyboard  and show the virtual one

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I found out how to do this on the Android emulator itself  Menu   quot Settings quot  App - not the settings of the emulator outside   All you need to do is  open settings app - gt  Language  amp  Input - gt  Go to the  quot Keyboard  amp  Input Methods - gt  click Default This will bring up a Dialog in which case you can then disable the Hardware Keyboard by switching the hardware keyboard from on to off  This will disable the Hardware keyboard and enable the softkeyboard

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Here are the steps        Settings     Language and Input     Default     Hardware Physical Keyboard     off to turn on the On Screen Keyboard

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Settings   Language  amp  input   Current keyboard   Hardware Switch ON    This option worked

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To be more precise  with Lollipop these are the steps I followed to show soft keyboard    Settings   Language  amp  Input  under  Keyboard  amp  input methods  label  select  Current Keyboard   A Dialog named  Change Keyboard  appears  switch ON  Hardware   then select  Choose keyboards   another Dialog appears  switch ON the  Sample Soft Keyboard   Here you get an alert about the possibility that keyboard will store everything you write  also passwords  Give OK  Repeat above steps in order to show  Change Keyboard  Dialog again  here the new option  Sample Soft Keyboard  is available and you can select it    NOTE  after that  you might experience problems in running you app  as I had   Simply restart the emulator

[android] How can I make the Android emulator show the soft keyboard?

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