A good example for what I'm looking for is the custom keyboard used by the WolframAlpha app.
Ideally I would like to set a custom keyboard for each EditText (one that only shows certain characters/digits), although I'm not certain that this is possible.
If anyone can point me in the direction of examples for how to do this and/or provide assistance in any other manner, it would be greatly appreciated.
I have been unable, so far, to find an example using Google of what I need to accomplish.
For developing custom keypad you should check this
android official docs and this sample app
and may this tutorial help you
See TextView's android:imeOptions and android:inputType to tell the keyboard what type of keyboard you want and if you want an enter key or something else (like "Go").
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Could anyone help me the way which combination of
android:inputType
can directly show the softkeyboard with numbers and different digits in it. Take a look on that screenshot:
needed softkeyboard That is what I'm looking for.
I have found combination of
android:inputType="text|textVisiblePassword"
which shows such keyboard: found softkeyboard.
But it's not what I'm looking for.
Thanks in advance.
Android TV's GBoard (Keyboard app) only supports email, password, text, and numeric input layouts. Unfortunately none of those is very close to what you're looking for. You can either implement a keyboard-like UI within your app to accomplish what you're looking for (substantial undertaking) or use the password layout and give instructions to the user, depending on your use case.
I just want to add keypad for the application that developed for displaying items alone and the keypad must contain only numbers as well as decimal and cancel button. How i want to create that and where i just want to create coding for that.
There are lot of tutorials and answers on stackoverflow. A simple search will be help full for you!
When i have searched on "How to create a custom keyboard in android", i got these results that i want to recommend you!
http://www.fampennings.nl/maarten/android/09keyboard/index.htm
http://www.winkeywong.com/2011/05/how-to-custom-keyboard-in-android.html
How to make a Android custom keyboard?
I hope that this will help you!
I have created a custom softkeyboard. It works for all the application throughout.
Is it possible to create a softkeyboard so that it can work for a particular application not for all the application.
Any ideas.
Thanks in advance
Here is good explanation of different ways to achieve this.
The Android Nethack application has a complete and clear source code example of how to create a custom keyboard for an application, how to display it on screen and how to define multiple keyboard layouts. It contains pretty much everything you need to know.
It is by far the best example I have seen.
http://code.google.com/p/nethack-android/
Umm, I guess you could integrate your own soft keyboard within your application - and never show the real one. Much work though, but I guess it could be done.
However you cannot force a certain soft keyboard to a certain application, but lots of keyboards support different styles using this in the XML:
android:inputType=""
Perhaps one of those would suit you?
For example if you'd like a keyboard fit for input in the form of email-addresses:
android:inputType="textWebEmailAddress"
Is it possible to have the AutoCompleteTextView show the suggestions above the keyboard just like when using the default dictionary? (If yes, how:))
Or can I use my own database to show suggestion when using EditText?
Hope you understand what I mean:)
Thank you
Bastaixen
I don't think this is possible. The suggestions shown above the keyboard are actually part of the IME, so completely unrelated to your application / activity.
The only way to do this would be for you to build-in your own IME and then you can customize what suggestions would be there. You can base it on latinIME, but there are still a couple of things you would need to figure out:
You would need to figure out how to tell Android to use your custom IME in your app. Or, like this answer say, just build in the keyboard in your app.
if your user is using a different keyboard (for different language, or swype or something like that), they would probably not like it much...
I need some help with a project i'm doing. Hopefully someone can help me :)
I need to change the sound or click the keyboard makes whenever i'm typing in an editText. I need the sound/click to be whatever sound i may prefer (in wave-, mp3- or whatever format).
So, a couple of questions:
Can i change this in the already implemented keyboard?
Or should i make my own keyboard?
if the latter is the case, how do i do that? Can i find the source code somewhere?
I have been looking at other questions regarding how to make your own keyboard. e.g. How do I make my own keyboard for an app in android?
And if i have to make my own keyboard i want to look like this. But how to do it?
Can i change this in the already implemented keyboard?
You can't... it's already built and some manufactures provide their own keyboard implementations.
Or should i make my own keyboard?
Yes, you must.
If the latter is the case, how do i do that? Can i find the source code somewhere?
There are some open source projects of Keyboard implementations... for instance:
https://github.com/g1011999/Gingerbread-Keyboard/
http://code.google.com/p/softkeyboard/
There you can learn how to write your own keyboard, which is completely different from writing a conventional app.
My suggestion is to create a new fork of the Gingerbread-Keyboard (this supports Android 2.2 or higher only)... and then implement that specific change you want. For one of my apps I did so, and it's far easier than implementing the keyboard from scratch.