I try with no luck to open the panel with emoji icons but cannot find if it is even possible on genymotion (?) Normally the input is from keyboard.
Regards
press alt in your real keyboard, you can see the option in Language and Input.
Go to Settings->Language and Input->Current Keyboard
Turn on the "Show Input Method" switch.
This will cause a keyboard to appear on the screen when you input text, just like the way android works on a device that doesn't have a hardware keyboard. You can use it to input emoji.
If there's a better way, or another way, I don't know about it.
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I notice Android devices' default keyboard behave in a different ways, but I have 1 particular behaviour that I am unsure what it is and how to configure the keyboards settings. See the info below.
When Click in any edittext to get focus, the Keyboard shows up
When I type "Hello", the edittext don't get filled with the text immediately. I need to click the suggested "Hello" and then the text shows up in the edittext
Questions:
What are the settings to make the keyboard behave this way?
Is this behaviour the same on all Android keyboards? (I think no but, I
don't find any supporting references)
Do you guys know any 3rd party keyboard app that has this feature?
How to know if the user is using this type of keyboard?
To detect user interaction I use a combination of (1)onUserInteraction() and a (2)custom TextWatcher implementation. Both are tested and working so I didn't add the source codes. I mentioned the 2 above because those kind of keyboards with that behavior textchanges cannot be detected.
From the screenshots above "Hello" will only show when you click the green "Hello" in the left screenshot.
If I try to use altgr+v (#) in an android emulator's editText, I cannot write the "#" sign.
The altgr is the 2 finger gesture (zoom) by default.
Any other shortcuts or some solution for this?
As it can be seen and pointed out in below screen
Take your mouse and click at the pointed area you will find new keyboard option and done
You can use your hardware keyboard that is attached with your computer or laptop. To use your hardware keyboard follow below steps
Open AVD manager
Go to edit option of your desire virtual device
Select Show Advance setting button
At the bottom you will find enable keyboard option mark that option check
It's still open bug in Google issue tracker from 2017 🤷♂️ https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37142228
This is an old question but still a valid one, since i suffered from that too recently.
Is not possible to type "#" using a keyboard with a language that requires to use Option+Q or Option+2 in Mac, or AltGr+Q in windows, the emulator does not accept the use of Option nor AltGr keys
the solution is to change the language of keyboard to english ABC so the # is accesible with Shift+2, in other languages, the number 2 has (") but in english ABC the number 2 has the (#) when you use shift.
Go to settings and change the configuration of your keyboard, in Mac you can just click in the keyboard icon showed in the top bar
I am developing an Android application. What I find most annoying during testing is, that the emulator always pops up that on-screen telephone keyboard whenever I click into a text input field. Since I input my data with the keyboard anyway I find that most annoying. Can one switch that on-screen keyboard appearance off? Or can one change that so that it at least presents a mini-qwerty keyboard as my actual device does, not that old-fashioned T9 keyboard?
Michael
You can disable the virtual keyboard in Settings->Language.
If you change orientation of the emulator it won't popup (KEYPAD_7, Ctrl-F11).
If you use cursor keys instead of clicking the fields, probably won't popup either.
Whatever you do, keep in mind that in actual devices it usually pops up anyway.
I'm trying to add a new account in android 2.1 emulator. When I'm entering my password, I found it's impossible to input some symbols, such as #,$,&,*, except #. For example, while I press shift+7, only 7 is shown in the password textview.
Any suggestion?
Entering these special characters into the emulator works correctly for me (Linux, US International keyboard layout). Which platform are you using? Have you tried the emulator's on-screen keyboard?
Have you tried toggling the input method from alpha to numeric/symbol?
I had the same problem. On your phone, you have to ensure that the settings for the keyboard/locale match your computer settings. Find the Settings icon and go from there.
I couldn't enter special characters with the pop-up soft keyboard, the PC's hardware keyboard, or the gray keyboard to the right of the emulator window on 2.3.3 emulator (API10).
However, when I tried on the 4.0.3 (API15) emulator, the PC's hardware keyboard entered symbols without a problem. The gray keyboard to the right of the window would just repeat keys if I held them down to get to the symbols. The soft keyboard wasn't available on my configuration and I didn't spend any time trying to configure it to do so.
I am using the AVD manager in eclipse. Is there a setting that I can use to stop the on screen keyboard appearing when an input field has focus?
I tried has hardware keyboard = true, but then the emulator doesn't seem to start at all :-S
mstoic's answer works, but with one problem: Google voice typing gets enabled with no way to get rid of it.
Not sure if this is available in emulators of all Android versions, but I found this in Settings -> System -> Languages & Input -> Physical keyboard (API 29 emulator). It worked for my use case.
The emulated device should have a physical keyboard, therefore negating the need for a soft keyboard.
I tried it out now and this configuration combination works for me:
hw.keyboard=yes
hw.touchScreen=no
The AVD has a physical keyboard, but no touchscreen, therefore only the physical keyboard can be used for text input, and the emulator does not show the soft keyboard.
Simply disable the Gboard app on your emulator.
To do that, go to Settings > Apps > Gboard, and then click the "DISABLE" button.
If Gboard is not visible, make sure you select the three dots in the top right corner and select the "Show system" option.
In some apps, you may see the Voice input box instead of the keyboard, you can disable that too by disabling the Google app in the same way you disabled Gboard.