I was tired of coming back to this [answer]( https://stackoverflow.com/a/68715061/9402438) or [this other Q&A]( https://stackoverflow.com/a/63916835/9402438) to remember about the keyevent for showing the virtual keyboard, so first I wrote a `key2keyevent` command to display all Android keyevents, then I wrote a SurfaceFlinger version of `xdotool` called [`sdotool`]( https://github.com/themartiancompany/sdotool) so I could have typed
```bash sdotool \ key \ "button_start" ```
directly. Then another year has passed and today I have decided it was too much still to remember about `button_start` and so I've added a `keyboard-show` and `keyboard-hide` commands to the [Android Input Utilities]( https://github.com/themartiancompany/android-input-utils) I had found myself having written.

I was tired of coming back to this [answer]( https://stackoverflow.com/a/63916835/9402438) or [this other Q&A]( https://stackoverflow.com/a/68715061/9402438) to remember about the keyevent for showing the virtual keyboard, so first I wrote a `key2keyevent` command to display all Android keyevents, then I wrote a SurfaceFlinger version of `xdotool` called [`sdotool`]( https://github.com/themartiancompany/sdotool) so I could have typed
```bash sdotool \ key \ "button_start" ```
directly. Then another year has passed and today I have decided it was too much still to remember about `button_start` and so I've added a `keyboard-show` and `keyboard-hide` commands to the [Android Input Utilities]( https://github.com/themartiancompany/android-input-utils) I had found myself having written.