Detect EditText pressed outside of custom keyboard (IME) Android

Question

I am developing an android keyboard with a search box inside it. I can detect when the user press my search box and then commit the text he types to my search box.

The problem is that I can't manage to detect when the user is pressing the original EditText (the one that opened the keyboard) because it's not my view.

This is how basically the keyboard looks like:

The keyboard is surrounded by the blue square, and my edit text is surrounded by the red square.

I tried setting this listener on my editText but with no luck: ( source )

editText.setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {
    @Override
    public void onFocusChange(View view, boolean hasFocus) {
        if (hasFocus) {
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Got the focus", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        } else {
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Lost the focus", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }
    }
});

The listener isn't being called when I press on the other editText. Probably because it is not a part of my service.

Even if I could some how detect a click on screen that is outside of my service layout, it would be great.

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

Although your question is very basic I think I can help here try this below snip of code and let me know if it works for you.

public void showKeyboard(View view) {
    InputMethodManager myKeyboard = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context
            .INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    myKeyboard.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);

}

public void hideKeyboard() {
    InputMethodManager myKeyboard = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    myKeyboard.hideSoftInputFromWindow(EditText1.getWindowToken(), 0);
}

Also this is a duplicate question, see here: Android: show soft keyboard automatically when focus is on an EditText

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Also you can review the Android Developer Docs on this topic as well: https://developer.android.com/training/keyboard-input/visibility