Question

How can I force display the virtual keyboard in landscape mode in startup of the activity? and this keyboard doesn’t fill the entire screen so I can display some views above the keyboard.

Answer 1

I guess you are talking to force to show the soft keyboard in landscape mode in a device with hard keyboard, right?

We can do this by following code:

InputMethodManager input = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
if(input != null)
    input.showSoftInput(view, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);