Open soft keyboard with button?

[Markus]

Hi,

we have written an own soft keyboard for our hardware. Unfortunately,
our hardware does not have a touchscreen. Is there are way to call the
soft keyboard with a button? In a development version of Android, we
could use SYM as keycode, but this does not work anymore. It just
opens the soft keyboard selection, but not the keyboard itself.

bye
Markus

[Dianne Hackborn]

Ouch my head hurts.  What in the world is the point of showing a soft keyboard when there is no touch screen?!?

Anyway, you can use the InputMethodManager class to show or hide the current soft keyboard.  I really don't understand what you mean about using SYM to show a soft keyboard, I don't think it ever would have done such a thing.

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Dianne Hackborn
Android framework engineer
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