Add optional notification area icon to open keyboard?

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Some applications react to keystrokes but don't automatically open the keyboard 
since they aren't providing input fields. This includes some games, and web 
applications such as Google Docs.

On Android < 3.0, long-pressing the Menu key should open the keyboard. If 
that's not working, please let me know.

Starting with Honeycomb (3.x), there's apparently no longer a way to force the 
keyboard to open. It would be useful if Hacker's Keyboard could (optionally) 
create a persistent notification entry or similar that provides a way to 
manually bring up the keyboard when needed.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 19 Aug 2011 at 6:19

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Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 19 Aug 2011 at 6:19

• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Investigating. Looks like this may be possible with something like this:

            InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)
                    getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            if (imm != null) {
                imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);
            }

From: 
http://www.google.com/codesearch#cZwlSNS7aEw/frameworks/base/policy/src/com/andr
oid/internal/policy/impl/PhoneWindow.java&ct=rc&cd=5&q=SHOW_FORCED&exact_package
=android&l=580

Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 27 Sep 2011 at 12:09

• Changed state: Started

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Progress, I got the notification icon keyboard activation working on my Xoom. 
Still needs some cleanups. Currently the notification icon is permanently on, 
this needs to be hidden behind a config preference.

Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 27 Sep 2011 at 7:03

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Please try v1.23rc3 from 
http://code.google.com/p/hackerskeyboard/downloads/list and let me know if it 
works for you. Note that I'd consider this experimental at this point, I may 
remove it again if it's causing problems.

Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 27 Sep 2011 at 7:31

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This is included in today's v1.24 Market release (same as v1.23rc9), though I'd 
still consider it experimental.

Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2011 at 9:15

• Changed state: Fixed

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The permanent notification option isn't really an option :-D It is always on 
regardless if what I set my preference as in the configuration.

Original comment by curvinphone on 30 Oct 2011 at 9:19

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The preference should be fixed in revision 4ae2af58964e, I had a cut&paste 
error that erroneously used the "force keyboard always on" setting value for 
the notification flag. It correctly handled changes to that setting, which is 
why I didn't notice it in testing, this just affected app restarts. Sorry about 
that, and thanks for reporting it!

Anyway, please try v1.26rc5 (or later) 
http://code.google.com/p/hackerskeyboard/downloads/list which should fix this.

Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 31 Oct 2011 at 12:02

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Bulk update - changing "Fixed" to "Verified" for old bugs.

(Background: I'm changing the "Fixed" status to be considered open, the next 
steps in the lifecycle will be the closed states "FixInTest" and "Verified". 
This lets me mark issues as "Fixed" in commit messages without hiding them from 
the issue tracker.)

Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 22 Jan 2013 at 7:33

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Bulk update - changing "Fixed" to "Verified" for old bugs.

Original comment by Klaus.We...@gmail.com on 22 Jan 2013 at 7:34

• Changed state: Verified