Question

my case is: I have one EditText field that is with disabled focus.
Beside EditText field I has two buttons for Input methods. So I want when click first button: to open soft keybord and edit text in EditText field. I try many ways with:

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(yourEditText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);

and doesn’t work for me. Only way to open soft keyboard is:

toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0)

but there is no way to edit info from EditText field.

May you suggest me how to open keyboard and edit text for some EditText when click button.
Thanks a lot!

Edited:

So, EditText is not focusable be default. When I click Keyboard button – should be focusable, then show me soft keyboard to enter text and appear in EditText. Other method to insert is A-B-C button which not required keyboard. It will be something like Morse code input – touch and hold A-B-C button 🙂 I’ll try suggested example to implement in my case. Thank you guys 🙂

Answer 1

Thanks guys for your help 🙂 I used all suggestions that you gave me, searched and tested a lot of other scripts and finally my code is working 🙂

Here is my final code:

InputEditText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.InputText);

public void InputData() {

        /* Keyboard Button Action */
        KeyboardButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(View v) {

                Log.v(TAG, "On Keyboard Button click event!");

                InputEditText.requestFocus();
                InputEditText.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);

                InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                imm.showSoftInput(InputEditText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);

            }

        });

}

It may be useful for someone 🙂
Thank you!