How to prevent the keyboard hide from view

Question

Have a webview on activity, i need the keyboard always shown on the page regardless of the input (May not input on some page).

Also the keyboard should not be hidden when user press button or any click event.

I tried below options (tried with all flag types) but couldn't find one.

InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputManager.toggleSoftInput (InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, InputMethodManager.RESULT_SHOWN);

You can't prevent the keyboard from deciding to hide itself. There's no hook for the app to prevent it. — Gabe Sechan, Apr 23 '19 at 20:05

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 17 '19 at 14:41

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You can add android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible" in your manifest.xml

<activity android:name=".YourActivity"
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible" />

answered Apr 17 '19 at 14:41

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When i tab outside or button press or back the keyboard goes off. It should stay always in the screen – Sampath Kumar Apr 17 '19 at 14:47

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 24 '19 at 07:30

The below answer works only when we have the single activity and a webview. Not tested for large application.

The answer is from customising the keyboard InputMethodService.

hideWindow() is an override method we can restrict the keyboard hide,

showKeyboardAlways and activity are static variables. The keyboard restriction will work only for the current application not for all.

@Override
public void hideWindow() {
    if (!showKeyboardAlways || SoftKeyboard.activity == null) {
        super.hideWindow();
    }
}

This will prevent the activity back press event, we need to implement the logic as given below

@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
    if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK && SoftKeyboard.activity != null) {
        SoftKeyboard.activity.onBackPressed();
    }
    return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
}

How to prevent the keyboard hide from view

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