how to open soft keyboard in android programmatically
class MainActivity: AppCompatActivity() {
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
setContentView(R.layout.activity_message)
val editTextMessage = findViewById<EditText>(R.id.myEditeText)
showSoftKeyboard(this, editTextMessage)
}
private fun showSoftKeyboard(context: Context, v: View) {
val iim = context.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
if (v.requestFocus()) {
iim.showSoftInput(v, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT)
}
}
}