Android InputType keyboard without EditText

Question

For an Android app with a custom design, I open the keyboard manually, as it has no input to focus on.

I open it using:

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.toggleSoftInput (InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY); 

I would like to set the keyboard as InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER but cannot find documentation on how to do this.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The solution to this problem is to set all the edittext in LinearLayout and set the visibility to “Gone” on this LinearLayout, and not on EditText (s).

This way you can focus on EditText programmatically by clicking on any other element.