android-softkeyboard

I'm trying to convince an EditText -view to only use the SoftKeyboard that I wrote. It's bugging me for a few days already and I can't believe that this isn't possible to do. I might not see the obvious... So far I managed to write my own SoftKeyboard based on the sample that comes with the Android SDK. I'm able to manually select it as the input method (long click, input method, *pick*). The SoftKeyboard then works fine and does everything I want. I also cleaned up the context menu to disallow changing the input method (obviously I currently needed it to be in the menu otherwise I wouldn't be

When comparing our design between developers, we found a strange behavior. After some analysis we went to this observation. When the activity starts, on some cases the keyboard appears but sometimes not. In fact, without a ScrollView , the soft keyboard does not appear by default on an EditText . <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" tools:context=".TestActivity" > <EditText android:id="@+id/editText1" android:layout_width="0dp" android

Short question: Is it possible (and how) to display the soft-keyboard from a Service? Long question: I wrote a service which creates a "top bar", displayed on top of all activities, containing an EditText. I want to display the soft-keyboard when that EditText is clicked, but this is not happening. Of course I've tried this from the Service's onFocusChange() and onClick(): InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)this.getSystemService(Service.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.showSoftInput(editText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED); The workaround I came up with is to request the current activity

I'm creating a search option in an android application. After pressing "Search" on the screen-keyboard an event triggers which sends the query to the server. What I want to do is disable the "Search" button on the screen-keyboard when no text has been typed in it's corresponding EditText yet. I added this to the EditText : android:imeOptions="actionSearch" So that's why the keyboard has got a "Search" button in stead of the default "enter"/"done". (Just in case you where wondering). We cannot disable the action button on the android keyboard. You will have to settle with checking for empty