Programmatically showing native keyboard

Hi all,
With a native textField I’m using native.setKeyboardFocus( textField ) to programmatically show the native keyboard.

I got it working on iPhone but on Android (I’m testing on a Nexus S) I only manage to give focus to the textField.
Apparently I can NOT show the keyboard, so the user is stuck with a focused textField but no keyboard to input data.
The only choice is clicking manually on the textField to make the keyboard appear.

So the behavior is not consistent between iPhone and Android and I’m not able to implement the feature on both devices.
Is it a bug? Am I missing something?

TIA
Emily [import]uid: 47531 topic_id: 10136 reply_id: 310136[/import]