Hi all, I wrote a service which creates a "top bar", displayed on top of all activities, containing an EditText. I want to display the soft keyboard when that EditText is clicked, but this is not happening. Of course I've also tried this:
[code] InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)this.getSystemService(Service.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.showSoftInput(editText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED); [/code] both in onFocusChange() and onClick(). The workaround I came up with is to request the current activity to show the keyboard, by extending the Activity class and adding an AIDL interface. The drawback is that each key event has to be sent back to the Service (via another AIDL inteface) and manually converted into Unicode. Moreover, if the current activity contains an EditText, the soft-keyboard only works for the activity and doesn't show up anymore when the service's EditText is selected. Short question: Is it possible (and how) to display the soft-keyboard from a Service? Long question: Short question + What prevents the service's soft-keyboard to be displayed if the current activity has an EditText? Could it be an Android limitation? Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
