Soft Keyboard Doesnt show when using adapter in DialogFragment

Question

I have a custom DialogFragment which has an ArrayAdapter in it which has some editTexts in it. When the dialog is shown the soft keyboard does not appear even if i press on

Answer 1

I have come across a similar problem while using a FragmentDialog containing a ListView. The items in the ListView contained EditText widgets that did not bring up the soft keyboard.

A workaround I discovered was to place an invisible EditText within the root layout of the FragmentDialog.

For example:

list_layout.xml:

DialogFragment creates the views as follows:

@Override
public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    LayoutInflater inflater = getActivity().getLayoutInflater();
    View listLayout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.list_layout, null);
    mListView = (ListView) listLayout.findViewById(android.R.id.list);
    return new AlertDialog.Builder(getActivity()).setView(listLayout).create();
}

@Override
public void onActivityCreated(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
    //set adapter
    mListView.setAdapter(mListAdapter);
}

Hope this helps