Question

In an Activity say MainActivity, i have programatically added a Fragment say Fragment_1

This Fragment_1 has a layout which contains an EditText. When i start showing this Fragment_1, the EditText gets focused but the soft keyboard is not openned

So i click on the EditText to open the keyboard, type some text and click done button, which must replace Fragment_1 with Fragment_2 which also contains an EditText.

But this EditText in Fragment_2 is not focused, but the keyboard is still open (may be because of the last Fragment_1)

so i added this for Fragment_2

EditText.requestFocus();

the focus is there and the keyboard is open, but the EditText is not getting populated by the Key Characters i am clicking.

Why is it so??

Thank You.

Answer 1

You should hide keyboard for first edit text on first fragment

private InputMethodManager mInputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
EditText.clearFocus();
mInputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(EditText.getWindowToken(), 0);

and than you should request focus and show keyboard for second edit text:

EditText.requestFocus();
mInputMethodManager.showSoftInput(EditText, 0);