Question

I am trying to display a Dialog with an EditText field, pre-populate the EditText with a default value, select all in the EditText, give the focus to the EditText, and automatically pop open the keyboard.

However as soon as I show the Dialog, the keyboard retracts. If I display the Dialog first, the keyboard won’t display.

I am displaying the keyboard with

InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(getView(), 0);

What to do?

Answer 1

Try With this..write on Your Dialog setOnShowListener method.like this before your alert dialog.show() method…

Dialogname.setOnShowListener(new OnShowListener() {

        public void onShow(DialogInterface dialog) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); 
            imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED,0);
        }
    });

i tried with this..it’s worked for me.