Question

as mentioned above, the keyboard does not show up, although the EditText is focused (orange border) and the cursor is blinking.
When I click into text field, it opens up, however I want it to be open right when the activity starts.

I tried setting android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible" in the activity, I tried showSoftInput(yourTextBox, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT); and also requestFocus().
But no success…

What could be the problem?

Answer 1

Try something like this:

 EditText myEditText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editPasswd);

((InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE))
    .showSoftInput(myEditText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);

Are you testing on emulator? If you do, you should know that keyboard doesn’t pop up on emulator :), but it does on a real device

Good luck,
Arkde