Simulate Touch event on EditText to show soft keyboard

Question

I have a invisible EditText: ReplyInput and a button: ShowReply.

I want to show the ReplyInput and the soft keyboard after ShowReply is clicked.

Anyone has any idea about that?

Thank for reading :)

Possible duplicate of [How to open Keyboard on Button click in android?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8078004/how-to-open-keyboard-on-button-click-in-android) — K Neeraj Lal, Nov 15 '16 at 16:13

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 15 '16 at 16:14

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Something like that:

InputMethodManager manager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
manager.showSoftInput(ReplyInput, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);

answered Nov 15 '16 at 16:14

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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One way is to make EditText visible upon clicking on Button and using InputMethodManager to bring up soft keyboard (Here's how to do it), but there's a better way and that is to show EditText and then put focus on it, this way soft-keyboard will be brought up automatically.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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answered Nov 15 '16 at 16:16

M. Erfan Mowlaei

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Simulate Touch event on EditText to show soft keyboard

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