i've seen in some apps that it is possible to order Gboard to force open or focus into an EditText but when keyboard opens it is not the usual keyboard, it opens in a "search gifs" or "random GIF suggestion" mode. It is usually used in some apps to display an "Insert GIF" button next to the edittext. Here's an example:
Keyboard opens as usual when you click on the EditText. Please note the presence of the "GIF" button next to the camera button.
Keyboard opens in GIF search mode, just by tapping the "GIF" button mentioned earlier.
Any ideas on how to trigger this specific soft keyboard mode programmatically? I've been reading a lot of info but not able to find any similar question asked before.
Looks like this did not have anything to do with the keyboard itself. The GIF button just opens a recyclerview full of third party trending gifs withdrown via an API call (eg: giphy/tenor) which sits on top of the keyboard.
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I have an in app keyboard that tries to behave like a system keyboard. So far it pops up from the bottom using Bottom Sheet, which is great.
However, unlike a system keyboard, it does not push the entire layout up when you select an EditText that might otherwise get hidden. So far all the solutions I saw on StackOverFlow seem to be about Soft/System Keyboard not an in-app implementation like mine.
Here is my activity with 3 Edit Texts
This is what happens if I click on the last Edit Text. It gets covered by the keyboard in blue
This is how I want it to be. Everything getting pushed up.
How can I achieve this?
I've made a custom soft keyboard extended from InputMethodService class, when the user clicks on any EditText, my keyboard will be shown and fill the whole screen (portrait or landscape).
Once I open Twitter application to write a tweet, writing Tweet screen shows up and my keyboard will be shown with no problems.
Once I click back button to hide the keyboard and back to write tweet screen, the keyboard and tweet screen have gone as well! So, any text I've written using my keyboard will be also gone.
I'm not sure if this is Twitter app problem, but I'm not sure how can I solve that? Even if I could handle back button event, what should I do next?
If you also using any soft keyboard, once you click back button, it will hide the keyboard and write a tweet screen as well.
I made a small trick for that, write a text and remove it to get the focus when onWindowShown is called:
getCurrentInputConnection().commitText(" ", 1);
getCurrentInputConnection().deleteSurroundingText(1, 0);
Now everything is working fine :)
Is there a way in AS3 Air for Android to show the soft keyboard programatically?
I have a project where when the user clicks a button, it pops up a form for them to enter their email address. I have it set to programatically focus on the "TextInput", but unfortunately this doesn't automatically bring up the keyboard. So the user has to tap the "TextInput" field again to bring up the keyboard.
Is there a way to just call a "show keyboard" function? I tried adding:
email_txt.needsSoftKeyboard = true;
But that doesn't seem to help.
Thanks!
Figured it out. I just had to call requestSoftKeyboard(); on the TextInput component.
email_txt.requestSoftKeyboard();
Not sure why that was so hard to search for the answer.
I've been working on a messaging app, and was just wondering if anyone had some insight in to soft keyboard transitioning.
As it stands, I have what is essentially my own input method (a layout at the bottom of the screen) for sending smiley faces, scribbles, things like that. My problem is that when the soft keyboard is toggled, i get some serious rubber banding and black boxes remaining during the keyboard transition.
I noticed WhatsApp does what is essentially a perfect transition between the soft keyboard and their own emoji keyboard, and in fact stops any soft keyboard animation (black area seen behind the keyboard) from taking place at all!
The closest thing I've come up with is a layout that crops anything that would be covered by the keyboard from re-rendering, but this doesn't seem to work all that great, and is nowhere near as smooth as WhatsApp.
Any help would be appreciated!
tl;dr how do i replicate whatsapp's emoji keyboard?
Whatsapp SEEMS to transition to a new keyboard, but in reality it doesn't quite do that.
It actually creates a custom dialog over the keyboard with their Emojis. This is why it smoothly transitions from the normal keyboard to the emoji one. You can check this for yourself by opening your keyboard, then opening the emoji screen, and finally select the input method from your notification bar. You'll see the new input screen is shown behind the emoji screen.
I have a webform that is integrated into a native app via a webview. But now when the user sets the focus on the first textbox of the form, I see a Go button on the soft keyboard. Instead, I'd like to have Next button, clicking on which would take me to the next input control. And the last input control alone should have Go button on keyboard. How do I achieve this? (Note: Please note that I want this on a web form. I've already found material on how to do this on a native form.)
Please go to take a look, is that what you are looking for?
How to change the Android softkey keyboard "Go" button to "Next"