Android soft keyboard will hide for no reason

Question

I\'m having the following issue - I have placed

android:windowSoftInputMode = \"stateAlwaysVisible\"

in my manifest which works relatively

Answer 1

The issue was that the keyboard is hiding due to the fact that we were passing all the touch events down to javascript we are having via loadUrl("javascript : bar(event.getX(), event.getY()));".

Turns out the loadUrl method internally hides the software keyboard. I worked this around by not passing the touch events to the javascript, but instead by using window.onmousemove