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Open emoji keyboard layout on editText click

I want to let the user only type emojis in an editText field. Is there a way to instantly show the emoji keyboard of the android keyboard when you click on a editText field?
Right now I helped myself with the android:inputType="textShortMessage" The problem here is, I always have to push the emoji icon in the bottom corner to open the emoji keyboard.
Does anybody have a clue? Thanks in advance! :)

Change icon on softkeyboard

I have an EditText with android:imeOptions="actionDone". The soft keyboard that pops up shows a tick mark. I want to change it to the one in google contacts search -->| . How can i do this? Can it be set in xml?

android:imeOptions flags include
actionDone
actionNext

Android soft keyboard issue

Hi friends,
I am working on an android application. I have a small issue with
android soft keyboard. I have an editText and when i click on it, it
shows me android soft keyboard. On the top of the soft keyboard, there
is a text area that displays all the text i type using soft
keyboard.It displays me what ever text i type using the keyboard. Is
there a option to hide that text area on keyboard.
Kindly help me in this issue.
Thanks in advance.

I think you are talking about Auto Suggestion. Add the following code to your edit text in the layout file.
android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"
or in the code, you can use it like this,
setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS);
also you'd better read this

Solution if you speak about auto-focus on edittext:
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)mContext.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.getWindowToken(), 0);

you can also use EditText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_VISIBLE_PASSWORD);
in your code.With the following code,one can stop the suggestions coming automatically from soft keyboard when you click on EditText

Need Prev,Next button above soft keyboard in android

I want to show the virtual keyboard with Prev, Next Buttons above the keyboard. When the user clicks prev button, cursor should move to the previous edittext input field and clicking on next button should go to the next edittext field in the view.
IF we open any page in android browser which asks input, we can see this kind of keyboard.
I need that to be implemented for the normal activity which I created. May I know how to do this ?
Thanks,
Senthil.M

For Next Button just add one line to your edit text field
EditText et1 = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText1);
et1.setImeOptions(EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_NEXT);
EditText et2 = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText2);
et2.setImeOptions(EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_NEXT);
and i m also search about previous Button
Please check
Add Button to Android Soft Keyboard

Simply set imeOptions to actionNext or actionPrev in EditText tag in xml like
<EditText
android:imeOptions="actionNext"
/>
And you can also set it programmatically like
yourEditText.setImeOptions(EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_NEXT);

How to change the Android softkey keyboard "Go" button to "Next"

I have a WebView which has a form containing 10 editboxes. When I type in an editbox I find that in the softkey keyboard Go button is visible which eventually takes me to the next page. But I want Next button which should take me to the next editbox, not to the next page. So, how to change the softkey keyboard "Go" button to "Next" in Android?

In the xml, specifiy for your editboxes the attribute android:imeOptions="actionNext" .
The next button will bring the user into the next field that accept input.

Take a look at http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/SoftKeyboard/index.html which may help you.