EditText not showing a keyboard [closed]

Answer 1

Just remove

android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants" 

in main RelativeLayout. You will get the focus in the Edittext.BlockDescendants will prevent the child layouts from getting focus. Check http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/ViewGroup.html#attr_android:descendantFocusability

Answer 2

You can use either of the methods to show the soft keyboard when the Activity gets focus,

You can add folowing code to the EditText in the Layout xml,

android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

Also, you can set it in the code as,

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);

or,

 InputMethodManager im = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
 im.showSoftInput(edittext, 0);