Struggling To Launch Numeric Keypad On Activity Start

I have few TextView's in my activity, when activity starts i want to show soft numeric keypad or that activity should always show keypad. I have tried: To set android:windowSoftIn

Solution 1:

I have tried this for an EditText in a dynamic way...The method would be the same for TextView also..When activity starts,give focus on that textView ,so that it can show u the keypad

boolean checkFocus=EditText.requestFocus();
    Log.i("CheckFocus", ""+checkFocus);
    if(checkFocus==true)
    {
    InputMethodManager mgr = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    EditText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_PHONE); [select Inputtypeas according to ur requirement]
    mgr.showSoftInput(EditText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
    }

Solution 2:

Place edit text in your xml file as first child.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><LinearLayoutxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android".....................><EditTextandroid:layout_width="0dp"android:layout_height="0dp"/>
..............
................
</LinearLayout>

Solution 3:

To pop up a numeric keyboard on start of the activity i used following steps:

Created edit text field in layout as:

<EditText...android:inputType="number"...  />

but since you need the key board to be poped without any edit text so give

<EditText...android:layout_width="0dp"android:layout_height="0dp"android:inputType="number"...  />

In function onCreate() show soft keyboard

InputMethodManagerimm= (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED,0);

Most important is to give focus to edit text in onResume method.

@OverridepublicvoidonResume() {
        super.onResume();
        editText.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
        editText.requestFocus();
    }