I wanted to open soft keyboard in Chinese languages in my android application which supports localization. Can any one please help me out.
There is no way to do it. The Keyboard is separated app and you have no way to tell it what language you want. Except situation when a keyboard has api's to do it. Your only variant in to write your own internal keyboard.
Anyway, if a system locale is Chinese - user in most cases already have Chinese keyboard so you don't need to worry about it.
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My design team suggested that users have an extra option to input numbers in the form fields by switching android keyboard in to handwriting mode. For example user can able to enter 7000 by writing on keyboard.
How can I achieve this in my android application?
THey may not be able to. There's no promise that any keyboard has a handwriting mode. Luckily you don't really need to- if the user wants to switch to handwriting mode and the keyboard supports it, they can do so themselves. But there is no way to open a keyboard in handwriting mode, because the Android OS doesn't have the idea of handwriting mode. It doesn't know or care how a keyboard accepts input.
https://github.com/phatware/WritePadSDK
http://www.heatonresearch.com/encog/
Try these libraries for android .
Android Kitkat:
Can you give me some hints about the following question ?
Display always English keyboard for a specific edit text field:
Question:
• How can I make sure the English language keyboard is always displayed when the user selects a specific Edit Text field in his tablet where the localization is set to Russian or Japanese or other language ? Basically override the Russian keyboard for a specific textfield
By default, all emulators have the Keyboards for English, Japanese IME
and Chinese installed. Since the keyboard that is used by Android OS
is a user's choice, there is no way to force using a specific keyboard
in the app code. If you want to get rid of the unnecessary keyboards
in the emulator completely, see the following post: Click here
As Christoph said
I'm developing a keyboard (IME) for Android. I want it to be useful for people from every country. So, I need to know which symbols should be placed on keyboard based on current locale.
My first idea is to copy computer keyboard layouts. Where can I get the contents of preferred computer keyboard layout for each locale?
Also, I've noticed that phone keyboards usually contains some special symbols which aren't present on computer keyboard. Which symbols are important for phones and why? For example, all keyboards I've met provide a way to type '¿' symbol. But this symbol doesn't make any sense in my locale (russian) and isn't used in english. Is there a reason for placing this symbol on every keyboard?
How can I detect which language is use typing into EditText. I know the API 13 has getCurrentInputMethodSubtype, but what is the alternate for older versions?
There is none. And I wouldn't count on even that above working across all keyboards. I wrote a popular keyboard and have no idea where the framework would get that info from- there's no API for them to query what keyboard type we are or for us to update if we switched (say from a user using an in keyboard switch language shortcut).
The keyboard API is really Google's bastard stepchild. They don't seem to put a lot of thought into it, or work with other major keyboard makers when adding new functionality.
i have followed tutorial Hello L10 in developer.android official website,but nothing regarding arabic.
what are the steps needed for an android application to be in arabic?
for eg,User can have either a combobox or radio button to choose from english or arabic.(i have done this).
Now if user selects arabic whole application characters should be converted in arabic.
even the keyboard presented should be in arabic?if i have to make custom keyboard for this?or any other way?
i dont have any idea.Any tutorial/demo ?.However i have googled around but not get specific material.
Any suggestion?
Users set their locale at the device level, through the Settings application. If their device supports Arabic -- some devices running Android 2.3 and 3.0 will -- then if your application has Arabic translations of its resources, the Arabic will appear. Also, the user will get an Arabic soft keyboard.
Other than providing Arabic translations for your strings, the rest is up to the user and their device.