Softkeyboard doesn't show up on GWT when using from a phone.

Issue details

Gdx.input.setOnscreenKeyboardVisible(true); doesn’t work on GWT when using from a phone.

Reproduction steps/code

Will add repro later.

Version of LibGDX and/or relevant dependencies

1.9.3 or latest

Please select the affected platforms

• HTML/GWT
• Mobile

Possible Fix

It should be possible to add a fake <input type="text> and focus it. This should bring up the keyboard on most platforms.

First reported here http://www.badlogicgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=18011

[doit-ceo]

I really hope libGDX change direction regarding mobile, WebGL is very mature nowadays, please look at http://venturebeat.com/2016/11/28/html5-is-the-next-100-billion-game-platform/ and try the game (not ours). We have the below site with spine, shader and actions and running 55-60 fps.

We took different direction regarding editing (Overlay Native Editing) and we solved almost all problems regarding keyboard, please try http://demo.doit.com.sa this basically adding HTML input on-top of LibGDX after edited we setText(…), this way we avoid predictive keyboard problems (compositionstart compositionupdate compositionend) and also access different type of keyboards (i.e. tel, text, email, etc. ).

Please scroll to the bottom of the site (http://demo.doit.com.sa)

Regarding this issue the correct and cross platform way to open the keyboard is to issue “focus()” on native html input(text), we set this to absolute and top:-1000px , also important to note that iOS (8.0+) will only open keyboard if executed from within user action and for that you need to run this from “touchDown” in libGDX (very important).

[Emperorlou]

@doit-ceo if you created a modular solution to this problem, would you mind sharing the code somewhere so we can contribute and use it?