Bringing up SoftKeyboard on android

I want to pop up the software keyboard when the user presses the search hardware search key.

At the moment I use the following function with doesn't seem to work for the search key but which does work for the back key: The logging doesn't get even tiggered through the search key.

@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
        if(keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK){
            Log.v(TAG, "On back key press");
            renderPrevious();

        return false;
        }
        if(keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_SEARCH){
            Log.v(TAG, "On search key press");
            this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);

        retu开发者_如何转开发rn false;
        }

        return true;
    }

I have no text field but want to handle the input directly myself if that matters.

this method setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE) doesnt wakeup the keyboard. Check this link. More to know about it check this example. hope it helps

Edit:

try this showSoftInput method

Maybe this would be helpful:

 InputMethodManager inputMgr = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); 
inputMgr.toggleSoftInput(0, 0);

http://plainoldstan.blogspot.com/2010/09/android-set-focus-and-show-soft.html

"When experimenting I was not actually getting what I wanted until I realized I should have an emulator device with no hardware keyboard:"