How to show soft input keyboard permanently on one screen

Question

I have autocomplete edit text i want that show soft input keyboard even on focus or not on autocomplete. I tried so manny things but non of them is working. Like in Manifest :

  <activity android:name=".MainActivity"
    android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible"
    ></activity>

In Activity :

   number = (AutoCompleteTextView) findViewById(R.id.ed_number);

    number.requestFocus();

    InputMethodManager imms = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imms.showSoftInput(number, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
 if (!number.hasFocus()) {
        imm.showSoftInput(number, 0);
        number.requestFocus();

    }

// on layout click it flickering on click like show/hide

linear_layout.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {
            InputMethodManager immq = (InputMethodManager) view.getContext()
                    .getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            immq.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
        }
    });

Answer 1

Your effort are handsome but i don't know why it is not going to set focus on AutoCompleteTextView . So please try one more solution might be it can help you.

number.setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {

            @Override
            public void onFocusChange(final View view, boolean hasFocus) 
            {
                view.post(new Runnable() 
                {
                    @Override
                    public void run() 
                    {
                        if (!view.hasFocus()) {
                            view.requestFocus();
                            view.requestFocusFromTouch();
                        }
                    }
                });
            }
        });