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Soft keyboard with Android Things on Raspberry Pi


I'm running Android Things 1.0.4 on a Raspberry Pi with a Touch Display and the soft keyboard is never displayed, even when giving focus to an input field.

For instance, in the wifi system settings I cannot enter the SSID password.

I found this question: How to show soft keyboard on Android Things?. But when running the command:

ime enable com.android.inputmethod.latin/.LatinIME

I get a "already enabled" result:

Input method com.android.inputmethod.latin/.LatinIME: already enabled

What can I do to make the keyboard show up?


Solution

  • Actually the keyboard didn't show up because there was a plugged USB device (NFC reader) which was obviously considered by the system as a hard keyboard.

    The soft keyboard worked again after unplugging the device.