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 found that a combination of @Reuben_Scratton's method along with @Yogesh's method seems to work best. Combining their methods would yield something like this:

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
    }
  }
});