Android Softkeyboard Issue

Question

I have an EditText widget in my main activity. when the EditText widget get the focus, the soft key board displays, when the EditText widget loses the focus. However, I want to display the soft key board all the time, until the main activity is Destroy. How to do this ?

Answer 1

//To show softkeyboard

((InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE))
                .showSoftInput(editText, 0);

//try this

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_‌​VISIBLE);

Answer 2

You can do that by adding following to activity tag in your manifest file

 android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible"