Question

I have an item in my application, click on it and it pops up an alert dialog with a text box and a button. It’s a bit clunky, the text box isn’t focused so you have to click it to bring up the keyboard. Is there a better way to prompt for text input?

Answer 1

If you need to let it always open you can use

  dialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);

And then use editText.requestFocus to get the text into there.

Or use the android:inputMethod on the EditText layout and add the “alwaysVisible” flag.