Rightly said by Gopalan RC. The InputMethodService can't be listening to
two source simultaneously for same type of input i.e. keys. Although some
shim could be worked upon if you are building your own Custom Android, but
on SDK level I don't think there is any possibility to do that.


On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Gopalan R C <[email protected]> wrote:

> We can get the status by the Configuration instance.
>
> Configuration config = getResources().getConfiguration();
>> int state = config.hardKeyboardHidden
>>
>
> But I guess, you can't programmatically turn off this.
>
> On Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:30:29 UTC+5:30, eddie wrote:
>>
>> Everytime I plug a keyboard or scanner, the soft keyboard no longer
>> shows when EditText is in focus.
>>
>> I've already tried to force the soft keyboard to always show using the
>> inputManager, but it only works when the physical keyboard is
>> unplugged.
>>
>>  inputManager = (InputMethodManager)
>> context.getSystemService(**Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
>>
>> inputManager.**showSoftInputFromInputMethod(**textView.getWindowToken(),*
>> *InputMethodManager.SHOW_**FORCED);
>> I'm using API 12 - Android 3.1.
>>
>> I couldn't also find how to show the window pop-up where the user can
>> manually turn off the physical keyboard.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated .
>> Thank you
>> Eddie
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