Android - Detect visible keyboard?

Question

Is it possible to detect whether a keyboard is visible on the screen or not?

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score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

I think this thread should answer your question. To summarize, you can give your activity's root view an id, such as "@+id/activityRoot", and then hook a GlobalLayoutListener into the ViewTreeObserver for that view. In the listener is where you check the visibility of the keyboard, like so:

final View activityRootView = findViewById(R.id.activityRoot);
activityRootView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
  @Override
  public void onGlobalLayout() {
    if (getResources().getConfiguration().keyboardHidden == Configuration.KEYBOARDHIDDEN_NO) { // Check if keyboard is not hidden
     // ... do something here
    }
  }
});

This is a combination of @Reuben_Scratton and @Yogesh's answers in the above thread.

UPDATE: Note that the documentation for keyboardHidden says it will ALWAYS return Configuration.KEYBOARDHIDDEN_YES if there is a hard keyboard available on the device(i.e. like a Motorola Droid 1 & 2)

It doesn't work. It always returns Configuration.KEYBOARDHIDDEN_NO to me (no hard keyboard on my device). — Yi H., Jun 17 '13 at 11:03

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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try this or this workaround since its not possible within "simple" sdk method invocation

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answered Dec 08 '11 at 19:43

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Codeman · Answer 3 · 2011-12-08T20:10:33.503

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You might try something along the lines of this:

InputMethodManager imm = 
    (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
boolean showingKeyboard = imm.isActive();

Hope this helps!

EDIT:

The other option is simply to force the keyboard open or closed, depending on what you want the user to see :) This would lead to more predictable use behavior and likely improve the user experience.

edited Dec 08 '11 at 20:10

answered Dec 08 '11 at 19:33

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It returns true all the time, even when my keyboard is not visible on the screen – aryaxt Dec 08 '11 at 19:38
this will not work if someone is using long-press-menu to trigger the keyboard. It tells you only if a view is active for recieving soft-keyboard events. – Rafael T Dec 08 '11 at 19:39
@Pheonixblade9: This does not work, read the docu on `isActive()` more carefully! It's not about visibility but about the 'active' state. – Bondax Nov 06 '12 at 12:31

Android - Detect visible keyboard?

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