Forcing the Soft Keypad to Always Display for MainActivity

In the Tip Calculator app, the soft keypad should be displayed immediately when the app executes and should remain on the screen at all times. In the Android Manifest editor’s Attributes for com.deitel.tipcalculator.MainActivity section, scroll down to the Window soft input mode option and select stateAlwaysVisible. Note that this will not display the soft keyboard if a hard keyboard is present.