Keep the numeric keypad open through out activity life

Question

I have a screen which asks user to enter PIN. I have 4 separate boxes & each box will have only one digit. So I want to keep the Numeric keypad open through out the life of an activity. I am able to force keypad open up on activity starts. But On presses back button it gets hidden.

Answer 1

Can you set this as part of your activity section on your manifest file :

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible"

you could try something like this :

public class EditView extends EditText {

    public EditView (Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }
    @Override
    public boolean onKeyPreIme(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
        return true;
    }
}