I want to use custom keyboard for my application, but I don't want to force the user to go into setting page to set my keyboard as the default keyboard.
What do I need to do to force my keyboard in my application?
Is there any chance to set soft keyboard as default programatically?
Fortunately, this is not possible, for obvious privacy and security reasons.
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I am trying to change the android default keyboard to another soft keyboard that has already installed.
for achieving this task I tried this code,
imeManager.setInputMethod(txtSearch.getWindowToken(),
"lk.bhasha.helakuru/.SinhalaSoftKeyboard");
but the keyboard is not changing.
How do I switch the android soft keyboard to another already installed?
Thanks.
For security reasons, it's not possible to change the keyboard programmatically, unless your application is an IME.
From the documentation:
A client application can ask that the system let the user pick a new IME, but can not programmatically switch to one itself. This avoids malicious applications from switching the user to their own IME, which remains running when the user navigates away to another application. An IME, on the other hand, is allowed to programmatically switch the system to another IME, since it already has full control of user input.
I want to make sure no other than native android soft keyboard is used on my application such as swiftkey. Is there a way to specify which soft keyboard will user use for input?
I came to a big problem. I have my own custom keyboard. My goal is to use this keyboard in my other application.
First I tried to set this keyboard as a default device's keyboard programatically. I could do it through adb shell with no problem. But couldn't make it from app using Runtime.exec(). Unfortunately the device is not rooted.
I can use this keyboard when i enable it in settings and then set it as default input method, but I have to do it manually.
So now I would like to set this keyboard to all EditText's in my other application. Is this possible ? Thanks for any help.
Is this possible ?
No. The user gets to choose the input method editor, not you.
I've made a keyboard for Android, and I want to disable the Android Keyboard to use only my keyboard. How can I do that?
thanks
If by "keyboard for Android", you mean an input method editor, you cannot "disable the Android Keyboard to use only my keyboard". Please allow the user to choose his or her own soft keyboard, which may or may not be yours.
This is how you can do disable softkeyboard.
Disable Softkeyboard
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.