[Question] How to display keyboard automatically when activity started

[bchooxg]

I have the field on a password screen activity
I would like for the keyboard to be displayed when the activity created instead of having the user to tap on the field.

Can i just check on how can i do this

[ghost]

Same question.

[HariAgus]

Hi, @bchooxg you can do like this in onCreate() :

// For show

fun View.showSoftKeyboard() {
        if (this.requestFocus()) {
            val imm: InputMethodManager = this.context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
            imm.showSoftInput(this, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT)
        }
    }

// For Hide

fun View.hideSoftKeyboard() {
     val imm = this.context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
     imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(this.windowToken, 0)
 }

After that, you can use like this : binding.circlePin.showSoftKeyboard()