Is there a popup soft keyboard in the Android emulator?

Question

As a noob I wrote an app with lots of layout screens and it worked OK in emulation but when I ran it on my Droid Incredible the soft keyboard popping up changed the layout of a LinearLayout I was using - shoving some elements aside and changing the height of others! I fixed it by adding android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan” to the Activity element of the manifest but I really would have preferred to discover this problem in emulation and not on a real phone.

So, is there a popup soft keyboard in the Emulator and if so how do I invoke it?

Answer 1

yes there is, you only need to click on an EditText box with your mouse and it will open.

Answer 2

Yes, of course. You can go to the emulator's edit page, do not choose the "Use handware keyboard".