Android 2.1: How do I bring the soft keyboard manually?

I've a form that occupies upper half of the screen and I want to show the 开发者_如何学编程keyboard at the bottom half all the time. How do I do that?

(Android 2.1, NexusOne)

If you want to control the soft-keyboard in your code you can use the InputMethodManager to call it up and dismiss it. getSystemService() is a call on the Activity.

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(activeView, 0);

Try <activity android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible">

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try View v = getWindow().getDecorView();