How to show a soft-keyboard when EditText is selected?

I tried using the accepted answer here but this does not work for me!

开发者_高级运维android - show soft keyboard on demand

Any advice is appreciated :)

how about this:

 activity.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_VISIBLE);

This line of code (which seems so obvious now) did the trick:

editText.clearFocus();