diff --git a/android-activity/src/game_activity/mod.rs b/android-activity/src/game_activity/mod.rs
index 2974d1b9..47e4912a 100644
--- a/android-activity/src/game_activity/mod.rs
+++ b/android-activity/src/game_activity/mod.rs
@@ -320,6 +320,32 @@ impl AndroidAppInner {
         }
     }
 
+    // TODO: move into a trait
+    pub fn show_soft_input(&self, show_implicit: bool) {
+        unsafe {
+            let activity = (*self.native_app.as_ptr()).activity;
+            let flags = if show_implicit {
+                ffi::ShowImeFlags_SHOW_IMPLICIT
+            } else {
+                0
+            };
+            ffi::GameActivity_showSoftInput(activity, flags);
+        }
+    }
+
+    // TODO: move into a trait
+    pub fn hide_soft_input(&self, hide_implicit_only: bool) {
+        unsafe {
+            let activity = (*self.native_app.as_ptr()).activity;
+            let flags = if hide_implicit_only {
+                ffi::HideImeFlags_HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY
+            } else {
+                0
+            };
+            ffi::GameActivity_hideSoftInput(activity, flags);
+        }
+    }
+
     pub fn enable_motion_axis(&mut self, axis: Axis) {
         unsafe { ffi::GameActivityPointerAxes_enableAxis(axis as i32) }
     }
diff --git a/android-activity/src/lib.rs b/android-activity/src/lib.rs
index da1c6282..8e559d08 100644
--- a/android-activity/src/lib.rs
+++ b/android-activity/src/lib.rs
@@ -442,10 +442,35 @@ impl AndroidApp {
         self.inner.write().unwrap().enable_motion_axis(axis);
     }
 
+    /// Disable input axis
+    ///
+    /// To reduce overhead, by default only [`input::Axis::X`] and [`input::Axis::Y`] are enabled
+    /// and other axis should be enabled explicitly.
     pub fn disable_motion_axis(&self, axis: input::Axis) {
         self.inner.write().unwrap().disable_motion_axis(axis);
     }
 
+    /// Explicitly request that the current input method's soft input area be
+    /// shown to the user, if needed.
+    ///
+    /// Call this if the user interacts with your view in such a way that they
+    /// have expressed they would like to start performing input into it.
+    pub fn show_soft_input(&self, show_implicit: bool) {
+        self.inner.read().unwrap().show_soft_input(show_implicit);
+    }
+
+    /// Request to hide the soft input window from the context of the window
+    /// that is currently accepting input.
+    ///
+    /// This should be called as a result of the user doing some action that
+    /// fairly explicitly requests to have the input window hidden.
+    pub fn hide_soft_input(&self, hide_implicit_only: bool) {
+        self.inner
+            .read()
+            .unwrap()
+            .hide_soft_input(hide_implicit_only);
+    }
+
     /// Query and process all out-standing input event
     ///
     /// Applications are generally either expected to call this in-sync with their rendering or
diff --git a/android-activity/src/native_activity/mod.rs b/android-activity/src/native_activity/mod.rs
index 99cd9c94..af2cbf2e 100644
--- a/android-activity/src/native_activity/mod.rs
+++ b/android-activity/src/native_activity/mod.rs
@@ -27,9 +27,19 @@ mod ffi;
 
 pub mod input {
     pub use ndk::event::{
-        Axis, ButtonState, EdgeFlags, InputEvent, KeyAction, KeyEvent, KeyEventFlags, Keycode,
-        MetaState, MotionAction, MotionEvent, MotionEventFlags, Pointer, Source,
+        Axis, ButtonState, EdgeFlags, KeyAction, KeyEvent, KeyEventFlags, Keycode, MetaState,
+        MotionAction, MotionEvent, MotionEventFlags, Pointer, Source,
     };
+
+    // We use our own wrapper type for input events to have better consistency
+    // with GameActivity and ensure the enum can be extended without needing a
+    // semver bump
+    #[derive(Debug)]
+    #[non_exhaustive]
+    pub enum InputEvent {
+        MotionEvent(self::MotionEvent),
+        KeyEvent(self::KeyEvent),
+    }
 }
 
 // The only time it's safe to update the android_app->savedState pointer is
@@ -369,6 +379,32 @@ impl AndroidAppInner {
         }
     }
 
+    // TODO: move into a trait
+    pub fn show_soft_input(&self, show_implicit: bool) {
+        let na = self.native_activity();
+        unsafe {
+            let flags = if show_implicit {
+                ffi::ANATIVEACTIVITY_SHOW_SOFT_INPUT_IMPLICIT
+            } else {
+                0
+            };
+            ffi::ANativeActivity_showSoftInput(na as *mut _, flags);
+        }
+    }
+
+    // TODO: move into a trait
+    pub fn hide_soft_input(&self, hide_implicit_only: bool) {
+        let na = self.native_activity();
+        unsafe {
+            let flags = if hide_implicit_only {
+                ffi::ANATIVEACTIVITY_HIDE_SOFT_INPUT_IMPLICIT_ONLY
+            } else {
+                0
+            };
+            ffi::ANativeActivity_hideSoftInput(na as *mut _, flags);
+        }
+    }
+
     pub fn enable_motion_axis(&self, _axis: input::Axis) {
         // NOP - The InputQueue API doesn't let us optimize which axis values are read
     }
@@ -403,16 +439,25 @@ impl AndroidAppInner {
         // ref: https://github.com/aosp-mirror/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/jni/android_view_InputQueue.cpp
         //
         while let Ok(Some(event)) = queue.get_event() {
-            if let Some(event) = queue.pre_dispatch(event) {
+            if let Some(ndk_event) = queue.pre_dispatch(event) {
+                let event = match ndk_event {
+                    ndk::event::InputEvent::MotionEvent(e) => input::InputEvent::MotionEvent(e),
+                    ndk::event::InputEvent::KeyEvent(e) => input::InputEvent::KeyEvent(e),
+                };
                 callback(&event);
 
+                let ndk_event = match event {
+                    input::InputEvent::MotionEvent(e) => ndk::event::InputEvent::MotionEvent(e),
+                    input::InputEvent::KeyEvent(e) => ndk::event::InputEvent::KeyEvent(e),
+                };
+
                 // Always report events as 'handled'. This means we won't get
                 // so called 'fallback' events generated (such as converting trackball
                 // events into emulated keypad events), but we could conceivably
                 // implement similar emulation somewhere else in the stack if
                 // necessary, and this will be more consistent with the GameActivity
                 // input handling that doesn't do any kind of emulation.
-                queue.finish_event(event, true);
+                queue.finish_event(ndk_event, true);
             }
         }
     }