How do I detect if software keyboard is visible on Android Device or not?

Question

Is there a way in Android to detect if the software (a.k.a. \"soft\") keyboard is visible on screen?

Answer 1

In Android you can detect through ADB shell. I wrote and use this method:

{
        JSch jsch = new JSch();
        try {
            Session session = jsch.getSession("", "", 22);
            session.setPassword("");
            Properties config = new Properties();
            config.put("StrictHostKeyChecking", "no");
            session.setConfig(config);
            session.connect();

            ChannelExec channel = (ChannelExec)session.openChannel("exec");
            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new    
            InputStreamReader(channel.getInputStream()));
            channel.setCommand("C:/Android/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb shell dumpsys window 
            InputMethod | findstr \"mHasSurface\"");
            channel.connect();

            String msg = null;
            String msg2 = " mHasSurface=true";

            while ((msg = in.readLine()) != null) {
                Boolean isContain = msg.contains(msg2);
                log.info(isContain);
                if (isContain){
                    log.info("Hiding keyboard...");
                    driver.hideKeyboard();
                }
                else {
                    log.info("No need to hide keyboard.");
                }
            }

            channel.disconnect();
            session.disconnect();

        } catch (JSchException | IOException | InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}