How to draw view on top of soft keyboard like WhatsApp?

Question

I want to know how it\'s possible to add View on top of Keyboard like WhatsApp and Hangout. In chat screen, they insert emoticons view on top of the opened soft

Answer 1

what my thinking is they have created their own keypad for smiles, and on click of smile icon or keypad icon they are hiding smile keypad and showing the normal keypad. there are two scenarios in whats app case 1) if you don't focus 1st time of editext then you can not see the show keypad button,and the height of smile keypad is exactly same as normal keypad,we will get the keypad height only after our view layout is changed, means only after the keypad is shown, that means they are creating their own keypad.. 2) if you focus the edittext and click of smile button then it will show the option of show keypad button Please correct me if i am not right on this