How to display the Soft Keyboard from a Service?

Question

Short question: Is it possible (and how) to display the soft-keyboard from a Service?

Long question: I wrote a service which creates a

Answer 1

If you want to show Soft Keyboard on edittext's touch, Why don't you consider using onTouchListener with that edittext. I beleive edittext.requestfocus() will also do this. If not, listener would definately work.

Moreover for the kind of view you mentioning, it would have been best to use fragments instead of service to create view.