From 2f43a6356393d0aae07b240ea8c48b0fa2c9e381 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rossen Hristov <rossen.hristov@telerik.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:56:52 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed:  TextField and TextView do not show the soft keyboard
 when their focus() method is called. #309

---
 ui/editable-text-base/editable-text-base.android.ts | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ui/editable-text-base/editable-text-base.android.ts b/ui/editable-text-base/editable-text-base.android.ts
index 338073ce0..543287f84 100644
--- a/ui/editable-text-base/editable-text-base.android.ts
+++ b/ui/editable-text-base/editable-text-base.android.ts
@@ -109,6 +109,17 @@ export class EditableTextBase extends common.EditableTextBase {
         }
     }
 
+    public focus(): boolean {
+        var result = super.focus();
+        
+        if (result && this.android) {
+            this._imm.showSoftInput(this.android, android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
+        }
+        
+        return result;
+    }
+
+
     public _onTextPropertyChanged(data: dependencyObservable.PropertyChangeData) {
         if (this._android) {
             this.android.setText(data.newValue + "", android.widget.TextView.BufferType.EDITABLE);