为什么我的softKeyboard无法在android中自动显示

Question

Strangely, my soft keyboard is not opening automatically.On SO I have looked they seem to ask on How to hide Keyboard...?

I would like to get the keyboard automatically focues on the Text Box.

Here is what I have on my XML

        android:id="@+id/msg"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:cursorVisible="true"
        android:gravity="left"
        android:imeOptions="actionDone"
        android:inputType="textMultiLine"
        android:maxLength="255"
        android:paddingLeft="5dp"
        android:scrollbars="vertical"
        android:textColor="#000000"
        android:textColorHint="#000000"
        android:textSize="25sp" />

How to fix this?

Answer 1

You stated "Text box".. If you meant "EditText" than one possibility will be to see if there is any other view that is requesting the focus. You can also try to add view.requestFocus programatically.

Answer 2

I suppose you need add:

android:textCursorDrawable="@null"

to EditText to see the cursor

Answer 3

Simply add this code <requestFocus /> To the EditText you want to be focused and it will open the keyboard for that field:

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/text"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:ems="10"
    android:inputType="textPassword" >

    <requestFocus />
</EditText> 

Answer 4

Add the following line inside your Activity tag in AndroidManifest.xml ,

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible"

Developer site says,

"stateAlwaysVisible" : The soft keyboard is made visible when the user chooses the activity — that is, when the user affirmatively navigates forward to the activity, rather than backs into it because of leaving another activity.

reference

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1510005/1665507

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html

http://blog.vogella.com/2010/10/25/android-windowsoftinputmode/

Answer 5

why you have to open a keyboard on a code. it will automatically get opened if you are on EditText