NEW ANSWER added Jan 25th 2012

Since writing the below answer, someone clued me in to the existence of ViewTreeObserver and friends, APIs which have been lurking in the SDK since version 1.

Rather than requiring a custom Layout type, a much simpler solution is to give your activity's root view a known ID, say @+id/activityRoot, hook a GlobalLayoutListener into the ViewTreeObserver, and from there calculate the size diff between your activity's view root and the window size:

final View activityRootView = findViewById(R.id.activityRoot);
activityRootView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
    @Override
    public void onGlobalLayout() {
        int heightDiff = activityRootView.getRootView().getHeight() - activityRootView.getHeight();
        if (heightDiff > dpToPx(this, 200)) { // if more than 200 dp, it's probably a keyboard...
            // ... do something here
        }
     }
});

Using a utility such as:

public static float dpToPx(Context context, float valueInDp) {
    DisplayMetrics metrics = context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics();
    return TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, valueInDp, metrics);
}

Easy!

Note: Your application must set this flag in Android Manifest android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" otherwise above solution will not work.

ORIGINAL ANSWER

Yes it's possible, but it's far harder than it ought to be.

If I need to care about when the keyboard appears and disappears (which is quite often) then what I do is customize my top-level layout class into one which overrides onMeasure(). The basic logic is that if the layout finds itself filling significantly less than the total area of the window, then a soft keyboard is probably showing.

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;

/*
 * LinearLayoutThatDetectsSoftKeyboard - a variant of LinearLayout that can detect when 
 * the soft keyboard is shown and hidden (something Android can't tell you, weirdly). 
 */

public class LinearLayoutThatDetectsSoftKeyboard extends LinearLayout {

    public LinearLayoutThatDetectsSoftKeyboard(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public interface Listener {
        public void onSoftKeyboardShown(boolean isShowing);
    }
    private Listener listener;
    public void setListener(Listener listener) {
        this.listener = listener;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
        int height = MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec);
        Activity activity = (Activity)getContext();
        Rect rect = new Rect();
        activity.getWindow().getDecorView().getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(rect);
        int statusBarHeight = rect.top;
        int screenHeight = activity.getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getHeight();
        int diff = (screenHeight - statusBarHeight) - height;
        if (listener != null) {
            listener.onSoftKeyboardShown(diff>128); // assume all soft keyboards are at least 128 pixels high
        }
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);       
    }

    }

Then in your Activity class...

public class MyActivity extends Activity implements LinearLayoutThatDetectsSoftKeyboard.Listener {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        ...
        LinearLayoutThatDetectsSoftKeyboard mainLayout = (LinearLayoutThatDetectsSoftKeyboard)findViewById(R.id.main);
        mainLayout.setListener(this);
        ...
    }


    @Override
    public void onSoftKeyboardShown(boolean isShowing) {
        // do whatever you need to do here
    }

    ...
}

Wow, We have Good news Android Geeks. And its time to say goodbye to the old way. First I will add official release note to read and know more about these methods/ classes, and then we will see these amazing methods/ classes

Breaking Note: Do not add these into your release apps, until these classes/ methods are released

How to check keyboard visibility

val insets = ViewCompat.getRootWindowInsets(view)
val isKeyboardVisible = insets.isVisible(Type.ime())

Few other utilities

How to get the height of Keyboard

val insets = ViewCompat.getRootWindowInsets(view)
val keyboardHeight = insets.getInsets(Type.ime()).bottom

How to show/ hide the keyboard

val controller = view.windowInsetsController

// Show the keyboard
controller.show(Type.ime())

// Hide the keyboard
controller.hide(Type.ime())

Note: WindowInsetsController added in API-30, so wait till backward compatible class is not available.

How to listen to keyboard hide/ show event

ViewCompat.setOnApplyWindowInsetsListener(view) { v, insets ->
    val isKeyboardVisible = insets.isVisible(Type.ime())
    if (isKeyboardVisible) {
        // Do it when keyboard is being shown
    } else {
        // Do it when keyboard is hidden
    }

    // Return the insets to keep going down this event to the view hierarchy
    insets
}

There's a hidden method can help for this, InputMethodManager.getInputMethodWindowVisibleHeight. But I don't know why it's hidden.

import android.content.Context
import android.os.Handler
import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager

class SoftKeyboardStateWatcher(private val ctx: Context) {
  companion object {
    private const val DELAY = 10L
  }

  private val handler = Handler()
  private var isSoftKeyboardOpened: Boolean = false

  private val height: Int
    get() {
      val imm = ctx.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
      val method = imm.javaClass.getMethod("getInputMethodWindowVisibleHeight")
      method.isAccessible = true
      return method.invoke(imm) as Int
    }

  private val task: Runnable by lazy {
    Runnable {
      start()
      if (!isSoftKeyboardOpened && height > 0) {
        isSoftKeyboardOpened = true
        notifyOnSoftKeyboardOpened(height)
      } else if (isSoftKeyboardOpened && height == 0) {
        isSoftKeyboardOpened = false
        notifyOnSoftKeyboardClosed()
      }
    }
  }

  var listener: SoftKeyboardStateListener? = null

  interface SoftKeyboardStateListener {
    fun onSoftKeyboardOpened(keyboardHeightInPx: Int)
    fun onSoftKeyboardClosed()
  }

  fun start() {
    handler.postDelayed(task, DELAY)
  }

  fun stop() {
    handler.postDelayed({
      if (!isSoftKeyboardOpened) handler.removeCallbacks(task)
    }, DELAY * 10)
  }

  private fun notifyOnSoftKeyboardOpened(keyboardHeightInPx: Int) {
    listener?.onSoftKeyboardOpened(keyboardHeightInPx)
  }

  private fun notifyOnSoftKeyboardClosed() {
    listener?.onSoftKeyboardClosed()
  }
}

Try this:

final View activityRootView = getWindow().getDecorView().getRootView();
activityRootView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
    @Override
    public void onGlobalLayout() {
        Rect r = new Rect();
        //r will be populated with the coordinates of your view that area still visible.
        activityRootView.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(r);

        int heightDiff = activityRootView.getRootView().getHeight() - (r.bottom - r.top);
        if (heightDiff < activityRootView.getRootView().getHeight() / 4 ) { // if more than 100 pixels, its probably a keyboard...
             // ... do something here ... \\
        }
    }
});

according to the doc.. https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/core/view/WindowInsetsCompat

check release note.. https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/core#1.5.0-alpha02

To get the current keyboard visibility, you can use getRootWindowInsets, and then call the isVisible() function, passing in the IME type.

val windowinsetscompat = ViewCompat.getRootWindowInsets(view)
val imeVisible = windowinsetscompat.isVisible(Type.ime())

there is also listener for changes OnApplyWindowInsetsListener

ViewCompat.setOnApplyWindowInsetsListener(view) { v, insets ->
    val imeVisible = insets.isVisible(Type.ime())
}

After understanding some of the issues with different resolutions, I decided to use a relative size. As I noticed the difference between visible and hidden states is about 30%. So I decided to replace 128 PX with 0.3.

And I added this class listener to notify of any change.

Here is my version

import android.app.*;
import android.graphics.*;
import android.view.*;

public class SoftKeyboardState {
  public static final int HIDDEN = 0, VISIBLE = 1;
  private OnKeyboardStateChangedListener listener;
  private View decorView;

  public SoftKeyboardState(Activity activity) {
    this.decorView = activity.findViewById(android.R.id.content);
    initKeyboardListener();
  }

  private void initKeyboardListener() {
    decorView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(
      new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener(){
        private final Rect windowVisibleDisplayFrame = new Rect();
        private int lastVisibleDecorViewHeight;

        @Override
        public void onGlobalLayout() {
          decorView.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(windowVisibleDisplayFrame);
          final int visibleDecorViewHeight = windowVisibleDisplayFrame.height();

          if (lastVisibleDecorViewHeight != 0) {
            if ((lastVisibleDecorViewHeight > visibleDecorViewHeight) && (lastVisibleDecorViewHeight / visibleDecorViewHeight >= 0.3f)) {
              // visible
              if (listener != null)listener.onKeyboardStateChanged(VISIBLE);
            } else if ((lastVisibleDecorViewHeight < visibleDecorViewHeight) && (visibleDecorViewHeight / lastVisibleDecorViewHeight >= 0.3f)) {
              // hidden
              if (listener != null)listener.onKeyboardStateChanged(HIDDEN);
            }
          }
          lastVisibleDecorViewHeight = visibleDecorViewHeight;
        }
      });
  }

  public void setOnKeyboardStateChangedListener(OnKeyboardStateChangedListener listener) {
    this.listener = listener;
  }

  public interface OnKeyboardStateChangedListener {
    public void onKeyboardStateChanged(int state);
  }
}

99% of solutions here are based on probability of IME WINDOW SIZE and each such solution is a sh... worth!

because:

1. OVERLAYS - from User apps or System apps
2. IME have no MINIMUM SIZE it can take 100% of window size and can be so thin as imagination of developer implementation :)
3. MODAL windows / MULTI windows
4. and many many more like no knowledge of IPC (eg: foreign window or its content detection)

so guessing it's IME is always wrong - don't guess be sure !!!

@kevin-du is best solution wright now as its query IMM for IME height - but as it said the method is hidden API so using it could be dangerous in the way of getting wrong "false negative results" - by wrong dev usage.

This code works great nice

use this class for root view:

public class KeyboardConstraintLayout extends ConstraintLayout {

private KeyboardListener keyboardListener;
private EditText targetEditText;
private int minKeyboardHeight;
private boolean isShow;

public KeyboardConstraintLayout(Context context) {
    super(context);
    minKeyboardHeight = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.keyboard_min_height);
}

public KeyboardConstraintLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    minKeyboardHeight = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.keyboard_min_height);
}

public KeyboardConstraintLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
    minKeyboardHeight = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.keyboard_min_height);
}

@Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
    if (!isInEditMode()) {
        Activity activity = (Activity) getContext();
        @SuppressLint("DrawAllocation")
        Rect rect = new Rect();
        getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(rect);

        int statusBarHeight = rect.top;
        int keyboardHeight = activity.getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getHeight() - (rect.bottom - rect.top) - statusBarHeight;

        if (keyboardListener != null && targetEditText != null && targetEditText.isFocused()) {
            if (keyboardHeight > minKeyboardHeight) {
                if (!isShow) {
                    isShow = true;
                    keyboardListener.onKeyboardVisibility(true);
                }
            }else {
                if (isShow) {
                    isShow = false;
                    keyboardListener.onKeyboardVisibility(false);
                }
            }
        }
    }
    super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
}

public boolean isShowKeyboard() {
    return isShow;
}

public void setKeyboardListener(EditText targetEditText, KeyboardListener keyboardListener) {
    this.targetEditText = targetEditText;
    this.keyboardListener = keyboardListener;
}

public interface KeyboardListener {
    void onKeyboardVisibility (boolean isVisible);
}

}

and set keyboard listener in activity or fragment:

    rootLayout.setKeyboardListener(targetEditText, new KeyboardConstraintLayout.KeyboardListener() {
    @Override
    public void onKeyboardVisibility(boolean isVisible) {

    }
});

Maybe this will help you:

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);

Referring to this answer by @TacB0sS I have developed one class in Kotlin. Hope this will be helpful. Let me know if it requires some improvement.

class KeyboardVisibilityObserver(val layRootContainer: View?, val keyboardVisibilityListener: KeyboardVisibilityListener?) {
    var isKeyboardOpen = false
        private set

    private var keyBoardObserver = object : ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener {

        private val DefaultKeyboardDP = 100

        // Lollipop includes button bar in the root. Add height of button bar (48dp) to maxDiff
        private val EstimatedKeyboardDP = DefaultKeyboardDP + if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) 48 else 0

        private val r = Rect()

        override fun onGlobalLayout() {
            if (layRootContainer != null) {
                // Convert the dp to pixels.
                val estimatedKeyboardHeight = TypedValue
                        .applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, EstimatedKeyboardDP.toFloat(), layRootContainer.resources.displayMetrics).toInt()

                // Conclude whether the keyboard is shown or not.
                layRootContainer.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(r)
                val heightDiff = layRootContainer.rootView.height - (r.bottom - r.top)
                val isShown = heightDiff >= estimatedKeyboardHeight

                if (isShown == isKeyboardOpen) {
                    //  Log.d("Keyboard state", "Ignoring global layout change...");
                    return
                }

                isKeyboardOpen = isShown

                keyboardVisibilityListener?.onKeyboardVisibilityChanged(isKeyboardOpen)
            }
        }
    }

    init {
        layRootContainer?.viewTreeObserver?.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(keyBoardObserver)
    }

    // call this in onDestroy
    fun removeObserver(){
        layRootContainer?.viewTreeObserver?.removeOnGlobalLayoutListener(keyBoardObserver)
    }

    interface KeyboardVisibilityListener {
        fun onKeyboardVisibilityChanged(isKeyboardOpen: Boolean)
    }
}

In addition to the correct answer I had to add this at the end of the onCreateView when using a webview inside a fragment.

getActivity().getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_PAN);

May be is because I am running a Webview inside a fragment or maybe a new behavior on API 30, my issue was that the height of the fragment was never altered even if the keyboard was being shown.

So for Fragment the entire code should be

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    View view = super.onCreateView(inflater, container, savedInstanceState);
    //mWebView.postUrl("https://www.google.com/");
    final View activityRootView = view;
    layoutListener = new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
        @Override
        public void onGlobalLayout() {
            Rect r = new Rect();
            //r will be populated with the coordinates of your view that area still visible.
            activityRootView.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(r);
            // This variable was created only for Debug purposes and 
            // to see the height change when clicking on a field inside mWebView
            int screenHeight = activityRootView.getRootView().getHeight();
            Log.d("onGlobalLayout", "rect: " + r.toString());
            Log.d("onGlobalLayout", "screenHeight: " + screenHeight);

            //The difference on the heights from bottom to top and on the root height
            int heightDiff = screenHeight - (r.bottom - r.top);
            Log.d("onGlobalLayout", "heightDiff: " + heightDiff);

            //I suggest to put 250 on resources to have better order
            float dpx = dpToPx(getActivity(), 250);

            if (previousHeightDiff != heightDiff) {
                if (heightDiff > dpx) {
                    isSoftKeyboardPresent = true;
                } else {
                    isSoftKeyboardPresent = false;
                }
                previousHeightDiff = heightDiff;
            }
        }
    };
    activityRootView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(layoutListener);
    getActivity().getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_PAN);
    return view;
}

private static float dpToPx(Context context, float valueInDp) {
    DisplayMetrics metrics = context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics();
    return TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, valueInDp, metrics);
}

This is probably not suitable for production because it will open the keyboard. Note that the boolean returned by similar functions is not specified in the API and are therefore unreliable. Refer to the documentation here...

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/inputmethod/InputMethodManager#showSoftInput(android.view.View,%20int,%20android.os.ResultReceiver)

public boolean showSoftInput (View view, 
            int flags, 
            ResultReceiver resultReceiver)

Note that this method takes a ResultReceiver. It can get the results: RESULT_UNCHANGED_SHOWN, RESULT_UNCHANGED_HIDDEN, RESULT_SHOWN, or RESULT_HIDDEN. If you get RESULT_UNCHANGED_SHOWN, the keyboard was visible. If you need it to stay closed if it was closed, you will need to close it.

View#setOnApplyWindowInsetsListener can be used to get window insets callback

public void setOnApplyWindowInsetsListener(OnApplyWindowInsetsListener listener) {
    getListenerInfo().mOnApplyWindowInsetsListener = listener;
}

//OnApplyWindowInsetsListener
public WindowInsets onApplyWindowInsets(View v, WindowInsets insets);

And boolean keyboardVisible = insets.isVisible(WindowInsets.Type.ime()) can give the visibility state.

The InputMethodManager has information about the soft keyboard. You get it from an activity via:

((InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE))

You might play around with that to see what it can tell you. You can use it to show or hide the soft input...