Why doesn't the softKeyboard open when I tap an editText inside a ViewPager?

Question

Like the title says, I've got a viewPager with some editText fields inside. I can select the editText fields perfectly fine (emulator and physical device). I see the cursor, and I see the underline color change, indicating it's selected, but I can't type. Tapping on the editText fields doesn't open the softKeyboard.

Is this a known issue with a simple fix, or is code needed to identify what's going wrong here?

Answer 1

Finally bumped in to an answer that's working for me, which can be found here .

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Basically, if you're using the onCreateDialog() method, you leave that as is, and add the onResume() method below to your DialogFragment 's java file.

@Override
public void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    Dialog dialog = getDialog();
    dialog.getWindow().clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE | WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);
    dialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_VISIBLE);
}

Answer 2

You can force softKeyboard with this code:

EditText yourEditText= (EditText) findViewById(R.id.yourEditText);
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(yourEditText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);