android show keyboard programmatically

To show the keyboard programmatically in an Android app using Kotlin, you can follow these steps:

Step 1: Get a reference to the current input method manager by calling getSystemService() with the Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE argument. This will return an instance of InputMethodManager.

val imm = getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager

Step 2: Use the showSoftInput() method of the InputMethodManager to show the keyboard. Pass in a View that has the focus and the SHOW_IMPLICIT flag to indicate that the keyboard should be shown.

val view = currentFocus
imm.showSoftInput(view, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT)

Step 3: Optionally, you can also specify additional flags to customize the behavior of the keyboard. For example, you can pass the RESULT_UNCHANGED_SHOWN flag to indicate that the keyboard should not be resized when shown.

imm.showSoftInput(view, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT or InputMethodManager.RESULT_UNCHANGED_SHOWN)

That's it! These steps will show the keyboard programmatically in your Android app using Kotlin.