How to focus and show soft keyboard when a EditText is shown in action bar?

Question

I used ActionBarSherlock to create ActionBar it has a search button that shows an AutoCompleteEditText (SHOW_AS_COLLAPSIBLE_ACTION_VIEW) When Searc

Answer 1

If you still have the problem, so call the following method

imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY);

instead of

imm.showSoftInput(searchBar, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);

Answer 2

Found the Solution:

searchWidgetItem.setOnActionExpandListener(new OnActionExpandListener() {

            @Override
            public boolean onMenuItemActionExpand(MenuItem item) {
                searchBar.post(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        searchBar.requestFocus();
                        imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                        imm.showSoftInput(searchBar,
                                InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
                    }
                });
                return true;
            }

            @Override
            public boolean onMenuItemActionCollapse(MenuItem item) {

                return true;
            }
});