How to check visibility of software keyboard in Android?

Question

I need to do a very simple thing - find out if the software keyboard is shown. Is this possible in Android?

Answer 1

I used a little time to figure this out... I ran it some CastExceptions, but figured out that you can replace you LinearLayout in the layout.xml with the name of the class.

Like this:

    

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That way you do not run into any cast issues.

... and if you don't want to do this on every page, I recommend that you use "MasterPage in Android". See the link here: http://jnastase.alner.net/archive/2011/01/08/ldquomaster-pagesrdquo-in-android.aspx