Android:how to show the soft keyboard on the LinearLayout

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Program's main UI of my App is divided into two sections, Made up of two LinearLayouts.The LinearLayout above aims to show the aircraft.The LinearLayout below aims to show the soft keyboard.I want to use keys on the soft keyboard to control the movement of aircraft. For example ,if I press the key 's' on the soft keyboard,the aircraft will move to the left.But I do not konw how to show the soft keyboard on the LinearLayout below.can you do me a favor?

On what event are you trying to show soft keyboard ? – Shree Krishna Mar 11 '16 at 09:12 — Shree Krishna, Mar 11 '16 at 09:12

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 11 '16 at 09:14

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Use windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible" in your manifest to show keyboard

answered Mar 11 '16 at 09:14

Vivek Mishra

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Good answer, but how to capture the input? – Ahmed Hegazy Mar 11 '16 at 09:22
by capturing key events using dispatchKeyEvent – Vivek Mishra Mar 11 '16 at 09:27

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 11 '16 at 09:15

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It's better to make your custom buttons, but you can achieve what you want by

Embedding an EditText in your layout and make it invisible or gone.
Programatically hide/show your keyboard using this utility class.

answered Mar 11 '16 at 09:15

Ahmed Hegazy

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e-shfiyut · Answer 3 · 2016-03-11T09:27:03.410

In addition to what others here suggested (to show the keyboard) you can use this in order for softKeboard to "do nothing" to your layouts:

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_NOTHING);

or in your Manifest:

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustNothing"

I think you should consider setting buttons in your layout, and not using the android keyboard... but this is just a suggestion.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 11 '16 at 09:25

You can use this in your manifest

 android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible"

It shows the keyboard at startup of activity and you can get the key event by overriding dispatchKeyEvent and getting KeyEvent.KEYCODE_S like here

@Override
public boolean dispatchKeyEvent(KeyEvent event) {

if(event.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_S){

        //Do whatever you want here
    }
    return super.dispatchKeyEvent(event);
}

Android:how to show the soft keyboard on the LinearLayout

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