How to show soft-keyboard when edittext is focused

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I want to automatically show the soft-keyboard when an EditText is focused  if the device does not have a physical keyboard  and I have two problems    When my Activity is displayed  my EditText is focused but the keyboard is not displayed  I need to click again on it to show the keyboard  it should be displayed when my Activity is displayed   And when I click done on the keyboard  the keyboard is dissmissed but the EditText stays focused and y don t want  because my edit is done     To resume  my problem is to have something more like on the iPhone  which keep the keyboard sync with my EditText state  focused   not focused  and of course does not present a soft-keyboard if there is a physical one

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to show keyboard forcefully use this code   editText requestFocus    InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  context getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE   imm showSoftInput editText  InputMethodManager SHOW FORCED

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After trying every individual answer here the keyboard doesn t show up   I got hours to get this solved  so hope someone doesn t waste it in the future   For my case  the issue was not a programming issue at at  I was testing on an emulator with a phone that has a hardware keyboard  so it doesn t show up the software keyboard by default  to solve this  you need to make sure that the show soft input enabled in your emulator by turning off the hardware keyboard or enable the soft keyboard  In faced this only on API-15  amp  16  Here are screen shots how to do that On Geny Motion emulator    On Android Studio emulator

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According to this answer I used the setSoftInputMode method and overrided theese methods in DialogFragment    Override public void onCancel  NonNull DialogInterface dialog        super onCancel dialog       requireDialog   getWindow   setSoftInputMode InputMethodManager HIDE IMPLICIT ONLY       Override public void onStart         super onStart        requireDialog   getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS VISIBLE       Override public void onStop         super onStop        requireDialog   getWindow   setSoftInputMode InputMethodManager HIDE IMPLICIT ONLY       I also made my own subclass of DialogFragment with theese methods  so when you create another dialog and inherit from this class  you have the soft keyboard showed automatically without any other edits  Hope it will be useful for someone

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The following code is pillaged from the Google s 4 1 source code for SearchView  Seems to work  fine on lesser versions of Android as well   private Runnable mShowImeRunnable   new Runnable         public void run             InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getContext                    getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE            if  imm    null                imm showSoftInput editText  0                       private void setImeVisibility final boolean visible        if  visible            post mShowImeRunnable         else           removeCallbacks mShowImeRunnable           InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getContext                    getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE            if  imm    null                imm hideSoftInputFromWindow getWindowToken    0                       Then in addition  the following code needs to be added as the Control Activity is created   In my case it s a composite control  rather than an activity    this editText setOnFocusChangeListener new View OnFocusChangeListener         public void onFocusChange View v  boolean hasFocus            setImeVisibility hasFocus

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android windowSoftInputMode  stateAlwaysVisible  -  in manifest File     edittext requestFocus     -  in code   This will open soft keyboard on which edit-text has request focus as activity appears

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I use timer  Keyboard can show when edittext isfocused       edittext    EditText  findViewById R id edittext        edittext requestFocus        edittext setFocusableInTouchMode true       if  edittext requestFocus              final Thread timer   new Thread                 public void run                     try                      sleep 500                       InputMethodManager imm   InputMethodManager  getApplicationContext   getSystemService INPUT METHOD SERVICE                       imm showSoftInput edittext  SHOW IMPLICIT                     catch  Exception e                        e printStackTrace                                                       timer start

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All solutions given above  InputMethodManager interaction in OnFocusChangeListener onFocusChange listener attached to your EditText works fine if you have single edit in the activity   In my case I have two edits    private EditText tvX  tvY   protected void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState        super onCreate savedInstanceState    tvX setOnFocusChangeListener this       tvY setOnFocusChangeListener this     Override public void onFocusChange View v  boolean hasFocus               InputMethodManager imm     InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE       if tvX hasFocus      tvY hasFocus                          imm showSoftInput v  0                     else           imm hideSoftInputFromWindow v getWindowToken    0                              I have observed that onFocusChange is triggered for tvX with hasFocus true  keyboard shown  but then for tvY with  hasFocus true  keyboard hidden   In the end  no keyboard was visible   General solution should have correct statement in if  show keyboard if EditText text has focus

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And for Kotlin just use this extensions   fun EditText showKeyboard         val imm   context getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE  as InputMethodManager     imm showSoftInput this  InputMethodManager SHOW IMPLICIT     fun EditText hideKeyboard         val imm   context getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE  as InputMethodManager     imm hideSoftInputFromWindow this windowToken  0

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I had a similar problem using view animations  So I ve put an animation listener to make sure I d wait for the animation to end before trying to request a keyboard access on the shown edittext       bottomUp setAnimationListener new Animation AnimationListener              Override         public void onAnimationStart Animation animation                        Override         public void onAnimationEnd Animation animation                if  textToFocus    null                       Position cursor at the end of the text                 textToFocus setSelection textToFocus getText   length                        Show keyboard                 InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE                   imm showSoftInput textToFocus  InputMethodManager SHOW IMPLICIT                                     Override         public void onAnimationRepeat Animation animation

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For Kotlin  val imm   context getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE  as InputMethodManager  fun showKeyboard             imm toggleSoftInput InputMethodManager SHOW FORCED  0         fun hideKeyboard             imm hideSoftInputFromWindow phoneNoInputTxt windowToken  0          Then just call what you want

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If EditText is inside Recycler or ListView and or this have disable state use below code   public static void showKeyboardByFocus final View view                view requestFocus             InputMethodManager keyboard   SystemMaster getInputMethodManager            keyboard showSoftInput view  InputMethodManager SHOW IMPLICIT            Runnable re   new Runnable                          Override             public void run                                 view setEnabled true                   view requestFocus                                      Handler h   new Handler Looper getMainLooper             h postDelayed re  360

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showSoftInput was not working for me at all   I figured I needed to set the input mode   here in the Activity component in the manifest   android windowSoftInputMode  stateVisible

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I had the same problem  Immediately after editText VISIBILITY change from GONE to VISIBLE  I had to set the focus and display the soft keyboard  I achieved this using the following code   new Handler   postDelayed new Runnable          public void run                 EditText  findViewById R id et find   requestFocus                             EditText yourEditText   EditText  findViewById R id et find             InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE             imm showSoftInput yourEditText  InputMethodManager SHOW IMPLICIT            yourEditText dispatchTouchEvent MotionEvent obtain SystemClock uptimeMillis    SystemClock uptimeMillis    MotionEvent ACTION DOWN   0  0  0            yourEditText dispatchTouchEvent MotionEvent obtain SystemClock uptimeMillis    SystemClock uptimeMillis    MotionEvent ACTION UP   0  0  0                                        200     It works for me with 100ms delay  but failed without any delay or with only a delay of 1ms    Commented part of code shows another approach  which works only on some devices  I tested on OS versions 2 2  emulator   2 2 1  real device  and 1 6  emulator    This approach saved me a lot of pain

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To hide keyboard  use this one   getActivity   getWindow   setSoftInputMode      WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS HIDDEN     and to show keyboard   getActivity   getWindow   setSoftInputMode      WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS VISIBLE

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I am agree with raukodraug therefor using in a swithview you must request clear focus like this         final ViewSwitcher viewSwitcher    ViewSwitcher  findViewById R id viewSwitcher       final View btn   viewSwitcher findViewById R id address btn       final View title   viewSwitcher findViewById R id address value        title setOnClickListener new View OnClickListener              Override         public void onClick View view                viewSwitcher showPrevious                btn requestFocus                InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE               imm showSoftInput btn  InputMethodManager SHOW IMPLICIT                             EditText affiche le titre evenement click     btn setOnClickListener new View OnClickListener              Override         public void onClick View view                btn clearFocus                viewSwitcher showNext                InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE               imm hideSoftInputFromWindow btn getWindowToken    0                  Enregistre l adresse              addAddress view                       Regards

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This is wild  but actually does work  fun showKeyboard view  View        try           InputMethodManager  class java getMethod                   showSoftInputUnchecked                   Int  class javaPrimitiveType                  ResultReceiver  class java           apply               isAccessible   true             invoke view context inputMethodManager  0  null                      catch  e  Exception           e printStackTrace

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void requestFocus View editText  Activity activity        try           editText requestFocus            InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  a getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE           imm showSoftInput editText  InputMethodManager SHOW IMPLICIT           activity getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE VISIBLE         catch  Exception e            e printStackTrace               add this line too do not forget  activity getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE VISIBLE

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I made this help class  Just pass the context and the View you want to focus and show keyboard and after hide keyboard  I hope it Helps   public class FocusKeyboardHelper    private View view  private Context context  private InputMethodManager imm   public FocusKeyboardHelper Context context  View view       this view   view      this context   context      imm    InputMethodManager  context getSystemService context INPUT METHOD SERVICE      public void focusAndShowKeyboard         view requestFocus        imm toggleSoftInput InputMethodManager SHOW FORCED  InputMethodManager HIDE IMPLICIT ONLY       public void hideKeyBoard        imm hideSoftInputFromWindow view getWindowToken    0

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editText post new Runnable          Override     public void run             InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getActivity   getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE           imm showSoftInput editText  InputMethodManager SHOW IMPLICIT

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For fragment  sure its working    displayName    EditText  view findViewById R id displayName       InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getActivity   getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE       imm toggleSoftInput InputMethodManager SHOW FORCED  0

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As I read on the official document  I think this is the best answer  just pass the View to parameter such as your EditText  but showSoftKeyboard seems like not working on landscape   private fun showSoftKeyboard view  View        if  view requestFocus              val imm   getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE  as InputMethodManager         imm showSoftInput view  InputMethodManager SHOW IMPLICIT           private fun closeSoftKeyboard view  View        if  view requestFocus              val imm   getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE  as InputMethodManager         imm hideSoftInputFromWindow view windowToken  InputMethodManager HIDE NOT ALWAYS

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Inside your manifest     android windowSoftInputMode  stateAlwaysVisible  - initially launched keyboard  android windowSoftInputMode  stateAlwaysHidden   - initially hidden keyboard   I like to use also  adjustPan  because when the keyboard launches then the screen auto adjusts     lt activity       android name  YourActivity        android windowSoftInputMode  stateAlwaysHidden adjustPan   gt

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Kotlin extension for showing the keyboard on focus    This is a combination of previous responses  which where either too long or incomplete   This extension posts a runnable on the message queue which shows the soft keyboard after requesting focus   fun View showSoftKeyboard         post           if  this requestFocus                  val imm   context getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE  as InputMethodManager             imm  showSoftInput this  InputMethodManager SHOW IMPLICIT                      Call it from any view when needed afterwards   editText showSoftKeyboard

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When nothing else works  force it to be shown   editText requestFocus    InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE   imm toggleSoftInput InputMethodManager SHOW FORCED  InputMethodManager HIDE IMPLICIT ONLY     And then later  if you wish to close it  in onPause   for example  you can call   InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getActivity   getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE   imm hideSoftInputFromWindow editText getWindowToken    0

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final InputMethodManager keyboard    InputMethodManager  ctx getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE   keyboard toggleSoftInput InputMethodManager SHOW FORCED 0

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code snippet        public void hideKeyboard Context activityContext        InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager              activityContext getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE          android R id content   http   stackoverflow com a 12887919 2077479       View rootView     Activity  activityContext               findViewById android R id content  getRootView         imm hideSoftInputFromWindow rootView getWindowToken    0      public void showKeyboard Context activityContext  final EditText editText        final InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager              activityContext getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE        if   editText hasFocus              editText requestFocus               editText post new Runnable              Override         public void run                 imm showSoftInput editText  InputMethodManager SHOW FORCED

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I had the same problem in various different situations  and the solutions i have found work in some but dont work in others so here is a combine solution that works in most situations i have found   public static void showVirtualKeyboard Context context  final View view        if  context    null            final InputMethodManager imm     InputMethodManager  context getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE           view clearFocus             if view isShown                  imm showSoftInput view  0               view requestFocus              else               view addOnAttachStateChangeListener new View OnAttachStateChangeListener                      Override                 public void onViewAttachedToWindow View v                        view post new Runnable                              Override                         public void run                                 view requestFocus                                imm showSoftInput view  0                                                                          view removeOnAttachStateChangeListener this                                       Override                 public void onViewDetachedFromWindow View v                        view removeOnAttachStateChangeListener this

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You can also create a custom extension of the EditText that knows to open the soft keyboard when it receives focus  That s what I ve ended up doing  Here s what worked for me   public class WellBehavedEditText extends EditText       private InputMethodManager inputMethodManager      private boolean showKeyboard   false       public WellBehavedEditText Context context            super context           this initializeWellBehavedEditText context              public WellBehavedEditText Context context  AttributeSet attributes            super context  attributes           this initializeWellBehavedEditText context              public WellBehavedEditText Context context  AttributeSet attributes  int defStyleAttr            super context  attributes  defStyleAttr           this initializeWellBehavedEditText context              public WellBehavedEditText Context context  AttributeSet attributes  int defStyleAttr  int defStyleRes            super context  attributes  defStyleAttr  defStyleRes           this initializeWellBehavedEditText context              private void initializeWellBehavedEditText Context context            this inputMethodManager    InputMethodManager context getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE            final WellBehavedEditText editText   this          this getViewTreeObserver   addOnGlobalLayoutListener new ViewTreeObserver OnGlobalLayoutListener                  Override             public void onGlobalLayout                     if showKeyboard                        showKeyboard     inputMethodManager showSoftInput editText  InputMethodManager SHOW FORCED                                                            Override     protected void onFocusChanged boolean focused  int direction  Rect previouslyFocusedRect            if  focused  this showKeyboard   false          super onFocusChanged focused  direction  previouslyFocusedRect               Override     public boolean requestFocus int direction  Rect previouslyFocusedRect            boolean result   super requestFocus direction  previouslyFocusedRect           this showKeyboard   true          final WellBehavedEditText self   this          this post new Runnable                  Override             public void run                     showKeyboard     inputMethodManager showSoftInput self  InputMethodManager SHOW FORCED                                      return result

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To force the soft keyboard to appear  you can use  EditText yourEditText   EditText  findViewById R id yourEditText   yourEditText requestFocus    InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE   imm showSoftInput yourEditText  InputMethodManager SHOW IMPLICIT     And for removing the focus on EditText  sadly you need to have a dummy View to grab focus   I hope this helps    To close it you can use  InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE   imm hideSoftInputFromWindow yourEditText getWindowToken    0       This works for using it in a dialog  public void showKeyboard        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager    InputMethodManager  context getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE       inputMethodManager toggleSoftInput InputMethodManager SHOW FORCED  0      public void closeKeyboard        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager    InputMethodManager  context getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE       inputMethodManager toggleSoftInput InputMethodManager HIDE IMPLICIT ONLY  0

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I discovered a strange behaviour  since in one of my apps  the soft keyboard was automatically showing on entering the activity  there is an editText requestFocus   in onCreate    On digging further  I discovered that this was because there is a ScrollView around the layout  If I remove the ScrollView  the behaviour is as described in the original problem statement  only on clicking the already focused editText does the soft keyboard show up   If it doesn t work for you  try putting in a ScrollView -- it s harmless anyway

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You can try to force the soft keyboard to appear  it works for me       dialog show    input requestFocus    InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE   imm toggleSoftInput InputMethodManager SHOW FORCED  0

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Sometimes raukodraug s answer won t work  I ve make it in this way with some trials and errors   public static void showKeyboard Activity activity        if  activity    null            activity getWindow                    setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS VISIBLE            public static void hideKeyboard Activity activity        if  activity    null            activity getWindow                    setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS HIDDEN             And the EditText part        editText setOnFocusChangeListener new View OnFocusChangeListener              Override         public void onFocusChange View v  boolean hasFocus                if   hasFocus                    hideKeyboard getActivity                   else                   showKeyboard getActivity

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It worked for me  You can try with this also to show the keyboard   getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT ADJUST RESIZE

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I have had some recent luck in some simple cases with the code below   I haven t finished all testing but      EditText input    EditText  findViewById R id Input   input requestFocus        input dispatchTouchEvent MotionEvent obtain SystemClock uptimeMillis    SystemClock uptimeMillis    MotionEvent ACTION DOWN   0  0  0    input dispatchTouchEvent MotionEvent obtain SystemClock uptimeMillis    SystemClock uptimeMillis    MotionEvent ACTION UP   0  0  0      And presto the keyboard shows up

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call requestFocus   method on editText in onCrete   method of activity   and call clearFocus   method on the same editText when click done in keypad

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None of the Answers worked for me  Here is a simple way   searchEditText setVisibility View VISIBLE                   final Handler handler new Handler                    handler postDelayed new Runnable                          Override                     public void run                             searchEditText requestFocus                                             400     Just delayed the requestFocus   method for 400ms

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Using Xamarin  this works for me inside a Fragment   using Android Views InputMethods  using Android Content        if    txtSearch RequestFocus         var inputManager    InputMethodManager  Activity GetSystemService  Context InputMethodService      inputManager ShowSoftInput   txtSearch  ShowFlags Implicit

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Believe or not my problem with Soft Keyboard was resolved when I discovered that the Activities animations can disable the Soft Keyboard  When you call the intent with the   i setFlags Intent FLAG ACTIVITY NO ANIMATION     and   overridePendingTransition 0  0     It can hide the Soft Keyboard and there isn t a way to show it

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I combined everything here and for me it works   public static void showKeyboardWithFocus View v  Activity a        try           v requestFocus            InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  a getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE           imm showSoftInput v  InputMethodManager SHOW IMPLICIT           a getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE VISIBLE         catch  Exception e            e printStackTrace

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To cause the keyboard to appear  use  getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE VISIBLE     This method is more reliable than invoking the InputMethodManager directly   To close it  use  getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE HIDDEN

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just add  android windowSoftInputMode  stateHidden  in manifest file

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Worked for me after adding this lines   globalSearchBarMainActivity setEnabled true   globalSearchBarMainActivity requestFocus      As my auto complete text view method was hidden i e  VISIBLE  GONE  So needed to add above two line  InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE   imm showSoftInput globalSearchBarMainActivity  InputMethodManager SHOW IMPLICIT

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In your onResume   section of the Activity you can do call the method bringKeyboard      onResume          EditText yourEditText   EditText  findViewById R id yourEditText        bringKeyboard yourEditText          protected boolean bringKeyboard EditText view        if  view    null            return false            try            Depending if edittext has some pre-filled values you can decide whether to bring up soft keyboard or not         String value   view getText   toString            if  value    null                InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager context getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE               imm hideSoftInputFromWindow view getWindowToken    0               return true                  catch  Exception e            Log e TAG   decideFocus  Exception   e             return false

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Simply add this line in your EditText view   android isScrollContainer  true    and TADA - keyboard began to show up automatically   I had similar problem and discovered this simple and strange solution   As already was mentioned here by user3392439  appearance of the keyboard upon focus somehow wierdly connected with presense of the scroll component in the XML file   Even presence of another EditText view which comprises abovementioned line in same XML makes keyboard appear no matter which one of EditTexts is currently focused   If you have at least one visible view comprising scroll component in your XML file - keyboard will appear automatically on focus   If no scroll - then you need to click on EditText to make keyboard appear

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