android-softkeyboard

I'd like to write an custom keyboard which should work on all devices that are running Android 4.0 and up. So first I searched the net but didn't found anything about that. So how can I create an app which replaces the stock keyboard of Android? What I'd like to know: Is there a good tutorial out there? Do you guys have sample code? Do I need root to do this? What's the structure behind it? (Is it just a regular Activity with a Service??) Is it possible to read out the Inputbox within the keyboard? Gabe Sechan So, I did this for about 2 years, when I worked on Swype. You don't need root, you

I have a layout that uses an EditText to let users search a database and populate a ListView. The EditText is about 2/3 of the way from the top of the screen (positioned over an ImageView, and followed by some intro text.) The problem is that the soft keyboard hides the EditText, so the user can't see what he's typing. (I disabled the auto-suggest.) I've tried LinearLayout, RelativeLayout, paddings, and different alignments/centerings, but I still can't get it to work right. The EditText is either hidden, gets pushed off the top of the screen, or get "squished" and distorted. Suggestions???

I am working on Android SoftKeyboard. I've created layout for keyboard but dont't know how to include suggestions which appears if we type some word in EditText. For example if i write "Kn" then "Known" and "Known" are shown in Suggestions. So my questions are - 1) How to include suggestions in Android Softkeyboard? 2) Is there any way to include our own list of suggestions? Thanx a lot in advance. I've already checked this and this but not able to find any proper answer. Any help would be appreciated. EDIT I want to include suggestions directly above Keyboard as shown in picture below. You

I am currently showing softkeyboard using the following code InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.toggleSoftInput (InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, InputMethodManager.RESULT_HIDDEN); And Here I d'not bind the softkeyboard with Edittext because of that I had used the above code. Now I want to close the SoftKeyboard so i am currently using the below code but it is not working. imm.toggleSoftInput (InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, InputMethodManager.RESULT_HIDDEN); Can Anyone suggest me what to use for closing the softKeyboard ? Based on

I've got a layout with some views, from which one is an EditText. The layout easily fits on one page, BUT, when the soft keyboard is out, the layout doesn't scroll. Here's a recap of my layout: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:background="@drawable/background" > <ScrollView android:id="@+id/ScrollView1" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentTop="true" > <LinearLayout android

I have a FragmentActivity using a ViewPager to serve several fragments. Each is a ListFragment with the following layout: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"> <LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:padding="8dp"> <ListView android:id="@id/android:list" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" /> <EditText android:id="@+id/entertext"

So I've got what seems to be a common problem, which is that the EditText in my dialog box doesn't show up when it gets focus. I've seen several workarounds, such as in this thread , this one and this one (and many more), but I have never seen a satisfactory explanation for why this is happening in the first place. I would much prefer to have android use its own default behavior for EditTexts than to build my own, but it seems like everyone (in those threads) has accepted that the default behavior for EditTexts in Dialogs is to just give a cursor and no keyboard. Why would that be? For the

How can I disable spelling corrections in an EditText 's soft-keyboard programmatically in Android? The user can disable it from settings, but I need to disable it in my application. Is there any way to do this? Set this in your layout's xml for your EditText: android:inputType="textNoSuggestions" Or call setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS) in your Activity' If you need to support API 4 and below, use android:inputType="textFilter" If setting: android:inputType="textNoSuggestions" still doesn't work (and your text field is small), a quick work-around is to use: android