Question

I have an android app that works fine, apart from that in one part of it the keyboard – although opened with the following code – does not appear:

View.OnFocusChangeListener vof = new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
    public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
        if (hasFocus) {
            getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
        }
    }
};

// ...

final TextView input = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.answer);
input.setOnFocusChangeListener(vof);
input.requestFocus();

Everything I could find on other help pages only came up with this solution, which did not work when I tried to use it on my Samsung Galaxy S2.

Answer 1

I found the problem – the XML layout asked for the focus before I set the listener so that onFocusChange was never called:

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/answer"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="175dp"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:layout_below="@+id/question"
    android:gravity="top"
    android:inputType="textMultiLine">

    <requestFocus />
</EditText>

When I removed the <requestFocus /> part it worked as I wanted it to.