Android TextField : set focus + soft input programmatically

Question

In my view, I have a search EditText and I would like to trigger programmatically the behaviour of a click event on the field, i.e give focus to the text field AND display soft keyboard if necessary (if no hard keyboard available).

I tried field.requestFocus(). The field actually gets focus but soft keyboard is not displayed.

I tried field.performClick(). But that only calls the OnClickListener of the field.

Any idea ?

Answer 1

Good sir, try this:

edittext.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
edittext.requestFocus();

I'm not sure, but this might be required on some phones (some of the older devices):

final InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) context
                .getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(edittext, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);