when using AlertDialog.Builder with EditText, the Soft Keyboard doesn't pop

Question

I am using AlertDialog.Builder in order to create an input box, with EditText as the input method.

Unfortunately, the Soft Keyboard doesn\'t pop, al

Answer 1

I've managed to solve it like this:

Dialog = builder.create();
Dialog.show();
Dialog.getWindow().clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE  | WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);
Dialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_VISIBLE);

Answer 2

A much better solution is given here.

dialog.getWindow().clearFlags(
         WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE
        |WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);

No workaround. EditText behaves as expected.

Answer 3

In my case, the SoftInputMode wasn't getting displayed when I set it which was before showing the dialog (after creating it). The below code worked for me where I set the SoftInputMode after showing the dialog.

Kotlin:

val dialog = MaterialAlertDialogBuilder(context) // Other builder code
                .create()
dialog.show()
dialog.window?.apply { // After the window is created, get the SoftInputMode
    clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE)
    clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM)
    setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE)
}

Java:

AlertDialog dialog = MaterialAlertDialogBuilder(getContext()) // Other builder code
                .create();
dialog.show();
Window window = dialog.getWindow();
if(window != null){ // After the window is created, get the SoftInputMode
    window.clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE);
    window.clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);
    window.setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
}

I hope this helps anyone who was having the same problem as me.

Answer 4

In my case the only way I was able to show the keyboard when the Dialog was shown was by adding to my DialogFragment:

@Override
public void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    getDialog().getWindow().clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE | WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);
    getDialog().getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
    myEditText.requestFocus();
}

Note the SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE instead of SOFT_INPUT_STATE_VISIBLE.

From documentation:

// Visibility state for softInputMode: please always make the soft input 
// area visible when this window receives input focus.
int SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE;

Answer 5

When you call showDialog() to show a Dialog created using AlertDialog in onCreateDialog()

You should put the code in onPrepareDialog():

@Override
protected void onPrepareDialog (int id, Dialog dialog, Bundle args)
{
    TextView editText=(TextView) dialog.findViewById(R....);

    editText.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
       @Override
       public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
         if (hasFocus) {
            dialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
         }
       }
    });
}

Answer 6

final AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(context);

final AlertDialog dialog = alert.show();
dialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_VISIBLE);