EditText inside the IME itself (soft keyboard)

Question

I developed a soft keyboard for Android, and I want to enter text into my own EditText on the keyboard's main screen.

If I add an EditText to the keyboard Layout it is not receiving input from the keyboard (Neither if I put it in a Dialog or a PopupWindow). Also requestFocus, setFocusable, etc are not helping.

The only way an EditText receives the keyboard input is if I put it in a new Activity (which is not what I need). AI-Type Keyboard has done this. They allow Google Search from within the keyboard.

Any ideas?

Answer the question and "ACCEPT" the answer so the rest of us can learn from your experience. — user239546, Nov 30 '14 at 20:57
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score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 08 '14 at 23:49

I had the same problem. Immediately after editText VISABILITY change from GONE to VISIBLE, I had to set the focus and display the soft keyboard. I achieved this using the following code:

(new Handler()).postDelayed(new Runnable() {

    public void run() {
//      ((EditText) findViewById(R.id.et_find)).requestFocus();
//      
        EditText yourEditText= (EditText) findViewById(R.id.et_find);
//      InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
//      imm.showSoftInput(yourEditText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);

        yourEditText.dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent.obtain(
            SystemClock.uptimeMillis(), SystemClock.uptimeMillis(),
            MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN , 0, 0, 0));
        yourEditText.dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent.obtain(
            SystemClock.uptimeMillis(), SystemClock.uptimeMillis(),
            MotionEvent.ACTION_UP , 0, 0, 0));                       

    }
}, 200);

It works for me with 100ms delay, but failed without any delay or with only a delay of 1ms.

Commented part of code shows another approach, which works only on some devices. I tested on OS versions 2.2 (emulator), 2.2.1 (real device) and 1.6 (emulator).

This approach saved me a lot of pain.

Didn't work in inside edittext which is above keyboardview . I have problem like this [question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55176159/gboard-like-search-bar-in-android-ime) help us if u can. — Bhavin Patel, Jul 24 '19 at 10:09

EditText inside the IME itself (soft keyboard)

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