how to use the IMF to design a soft keyboard. Please point me to some resources that will help me understand how to do it from the ground up. Something other than the SDK sample
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I would like to play around with some ideas and develop a soft keyboard for Android to replace the default one.
Is there any general information about soft keyboard development for Android out there?
Any best practices or guidelines?
Can I do with my keyboard application pretty much anything I could do with a normal Android application?
Can I do HTTP connections to synchronize keyboard data with a cloud DB and other phones I have?
Can I open other windows/screens from a key press, e.g. to display a custom input interface different to a normal QWERTY one. If that doesn't work, can I use a pop-up dialog instead?
I have a tabbed view with one Activity per tab, and when I switch from the first tab, which has a TextView, to the second tab, which only shows a clickable list, the soft keyboard is still there. I want it to go away.
I tried this:
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But this does not work, because there is no relevant view to provide, as there is no View on the screen that takes keyboard input.
I'm using an MK802 mini PC. I don't have a USB keyboard yet.
When I plug in a wired USB mouse, I can use that to click on the on screen soft keyboard.
But when I plug in the wireless dongle for a USB mouse, the Android soft keyboard doesn't show anymore (I guess this is because the wireless dongle supports both keyboard and mouse, and tells Android a hardware keyboard is available, so Android doesn't show the soft keyboard).
Any way to ignore this and always show the soft keyboard? Or another keyboard I can download which will always show?
I am a developer and recently completed the implementation of my keyboard MessagEase. It's available on the Market (with its very- different features, making it quite unlike QWERTY).
This keyboard works fine as a replacement of the standard keyboard on an Android Phone. But for a An Android Tablet, it would work best if it's implemented as a floating, movable keyboard.
(the footprint of this keyboard is mostly dependable on the size of a human's finger; it remains the same even if the tablet's display is much larger than a phone's. Therefore it'll take a relatively smaller area on a tablet.)
If I use the current SDK hooks, it will have to take a significant portion of the screen, defeating the purpose.
I have a layout which has one large EditText view at the top + a bunch of buttons at the bottom. The EditText is made to shrink and expand when the ime is activated/deactivated by using adjust_resize. The buttons at the bottom are pushed up above the ime.
I would like to hide these buttons when the ime displays, to provide enough space for the EditText view.
I have so far tried the following:
subclassed EditText and provided the activity the option to register a callback on the view's OnSizeChanged.
Used this callback to change the visibility of the buttons (actually the layout container) to GONE.
This work OK and does hide the buttons when the ime pops up. However, the EditText does not expand into the new available space. Furthermore, when the ime is disposed off, the EditText field is now bigger than it was originally, pushing (the now showing) buttons outside the screen.
I should also add that when typing the first letter into the view, and the ime displays the word options, the screen is redrawn and the EditText fills the vacant space. how to get this to work? Or even better, is there a simpler solution to my requirement? In my view, scrolling is not a good option.
I have an EditText control that does not pop up the soft keyboard when the user touches it. The thing is, that I have a number of other EditText controls elsewhere in my application that all work fine, and I cannot see anything really different about this one.The code is a bit complex to post here, but I was wondering if anyone knows of any reasons why the soft keyboard would not appear in some cases.
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Is there any way using which i can pull up virtual keyboard in numeric mode only when i need to enter numbers only?
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if anyone could help. Here is my situation: I have a game with a portion that up to now we have been using the G1's hardware keyboard to implement. With the advent of 1.5 and because of the desire for more device compatibility, we've shifted requirements to implementing using a soft keyboard. I've been researching google groups and the android SoftKeyboard sample for a while, and what I've found can only get me part of the way. I have made a very simple custom soft keyboard (only capital letters and a backspace key / no candidate view) and it seems to function properly, but I had to activate it in the "Locale & Text" section of the settings, and long press an EditText box to force the selection of my custom keyboard. Is there a way to force the use of the soft keyboard I built in my application (they are in the same AndroidManifest.xml) without having the user "activate" the keyboard in "Locale & Text"? Alternatively, I want to use the default Android keyboard to do input, but I want to deactivate the candidate view and capture KeyEvents directly from it instead of using an EditText. Basically, is there a way to get the same exact functionality as the hardware keyboard on the G1 from this IME stuff?
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