I am working on an Android chatting application. I need to show, a smileys or emoji's keyboard, like that of 'Whats App'. Is there any such default keyboard for Android? If yes, how do I implement it?
This largely depends on what the user currently has installed. I use SwiftKey on my phone so I have the ability to use the Emoji's. If you are willing to put in the effort to create your own Emoji keyboard then toobsco42 has a great basic explanation of the process as well as a link to a repo that you can use.
i would say start by getting the font with all the unicode charset for your application and render them in an layout invoked on the button in your input field.
One of the website to create custom fonts : icomoon.io
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I created a keyboard app that will use unicode for keys characters and input. The language is not available on the current android system fonts available. So I loaded it in my app and assigned it on a TextView in the MainActivity.
I can see the characters in the app's TextView when I type using the keyboard. But when I change to some other application like a Message App, it doesn't show. (I am currently not loading the characters on the keyboard keys because that is a separate thing)
So I googled and find nothing to fix this problem. (I don't want rooting). I was thinking of this,
Can I load the font to some kind of a service so that all apps can use the font? OR is there any way to work around on this? I am open to any suggestion. Thank you in advance.
If the device does not support UTF-8 fonts/characters, There is no workaround to achieve such functionality. However, you can create a custom keyboard for it but it will be limited to your application only. finally the answer is there is no way to achieve it if the device does not support utf-8 encoding.
How can you make an in-app buttons that works like the keyboard?
I am trying to load a website(which is coded using javascript) into my app using the webView function. But unfortunately, the interactive design of the website requires the user to type in letters from the computer keyboard. I could easily pull up the keyboard on the android device to type, but it is a bit too inconvenient as I only need to use 5 buttons.
I used Kotlin to try inserting a letter to the webView browser, but I can't find a solution just yet. Is there a way to make a shortcut or a set of a library that allows me to do so? Thank you for your replies.
You'll need to dispatch KeyEvents to the WebView. For example, the following code simulates a left key press.
webView.dispatchKeyEvent(KeyEvent(KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN, KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_LEFT))
Here's an article for further reference. The list of possible KeyEvent codes is available in the official docs.
I am currently making a messenger app for android, and I just added emoticons. Now, I looked at the WhatsApp UI and I realized that they use the iOS emoticons for everything (even the ActionBar) and I was wondering how they had done this.
Is it possible to change Android's emoji texture atlas just for my app or something like that, and if so, where can I get these iOS emoticons and how do I implement that? Or do I have to write my own TextView / EditText / ... and my own emoji keyboard for it to look like WhatsApp's?
Thanks
Edit: I found out that there is an "Apple Color Emoji.ttf" without license that supports these emojis. Can I use this on android?
i want use numericKeypad and Password input on "inputbox" Function.
android and ios. (Firemonkey Delphi XE5)
eg. str:=inputbox('pass','pass','pass')
but only show on device multiple keyboard layout.
Please solution.
Thanks...
InputBox doesn't offer a choice of which keyboard you use, whether it's the FMX.Dialogs.InputBox or VCL.Dialogs.InputBox version. It's a standardized function that uses the standard keyboard layout.
If you want different behavior, use a different method to get the input. Design your own form that supplies the specialized behavior and show it to get the input from the user.
I am trying to develop a emoticon keyboard for Android. I would like for the user to be able to purchase the app and install the emoticons to use with their keyboard for text and social networking my emoticons are graphics would I have to create a softkeyboard? how can I go about making this app any source codes advice would be appreciated I am new to app development its nothing like web..PLEASE HELP!!
I am trying to develop a emoticon keyboard for Android
Please bear in mind that most people do not speak exclusively in emoticons. Either you will need to create a full natural-language soft keyboard that also has emoticons, or users will have to flip back and forth between their regular soft keyboard and yours. The latter seems unlikely to be popular.
would I have to create a softkeyboard?
You are asking to create a soft keyboard.
how can I go about making this app
There is a SoftKeyboard sample app in your SDK that you can use as a starting point. Beyond that, search for tutorials on how to create an InputMethodService.