[android-developers] Programatically showing the soft input keyboard - woes

I have an activity for which I want to show the keyboard immediately
when the activity starts.

Please see the following 2 screenshots I uploaded to an album:

https://plus.google.com/u/1/photos?tab=Xq#photos/102109440646458760555/albums/5693607597471294017

Screen shot #1 show what happens if I manually tap on the "Payee"
field. Everthing is OK.

Screen shot #2 show what happens if I programatically show the
keyboard. As you can see, the two input fields in the middle have
disappeared!! The fact that these two fields are in a ScrollView is
probably related.

The code I am using to force the keyboard is:

Window window = getWindow();
WindowManager.LayoutParams layoutParams = window.getAttributes();
layoutParams.softInputMode =
WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE;
window.setAttributes(layoutParams);

I suspect this is an Android bug, but does anybody have any
suggestions what I could try to fix this?

Thanks

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