How to check the virtual keyboard active in Android using Appium Automation?

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How to check the virtual keyboard active in Android using Appium Automation?

Thanks,
Sanoj

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Run adb command - ‘adb shell dumpsys input_method | grep mInputShown’
If you run on windows command prompt replace ‘grep’ with ‘FINDSTR’ . Output will be like this - “mShowRequested=false mShowExplicitlyRequested=false mShowForced=false mInputShown=false”

check mInputShown flag if true means keyboard is shown , then hide keyboard by driver.pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.BACK); appium API.

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@sanoj27, what problem are you trying to solve. Are you trying to close the keyboard if it’s open? If so, you can use the hide_keyboard method as described in How to know if android virtual keyboard is open

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Thank you very much @auto-geek for the reply and its working for me. I have one more concern here,
have any method to determine the same for iOS devices?

Thanks,
Sanoj

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@sanoj27 i have never worked on iOS. But did u try ((IOSDriver) wd).hideKeyboard(HideKeyboardStrategy.PRESS_KEY,"Hide keyboard"); this method of appium ?

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I tried the same, still sometime keyboard is visible sometime not, so I mentioned driver.hidekeyboard() in a try catch() block, but sometime driver.hidekeyboard is unable to hide the visible keyboard. Please let me know how can I find out the keyboard element so that I can resolve the issue.
or
I want to try the below approach :
if keyboard element is found then will press device back button,

In my opinion above approach would be best to resolve hidekeyboard() issue.

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See the comment above by autogeek posted Dec '15