Start Android keyboard in voice recognition mode
I would like to open the keyboard programmatically and have it start doing voice recognition instantly without the user pressing the mic button. I know how to implement SpeechRecognizer - that is not what I'm looking for. I want to start the keyboard VR and text go straight to an editview. Is this possible? Unfortunately this is not possible, but it very much should be . I went searching for a way to do this when I needed to use offline speech recognition as a 'hack' - but I couldn't achieve it. I can only suggest you submit an AOSP enhancement request regarding InputType . The following