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.
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What I want to do is to make an Android app with the same functionality callable by typing special words into the Google keyboard at any moment in which it is open (even if it is used into another app).
The easiest solution to achieve this is by making my own keyboard and let the user set it as default but I would prefer to insert this functionality to the Gboard so the user does not have to change his keyboard application
So the question is:
How can I know from a service what's typed into the Gboard even when the keyboard is used by other applications?
is it possible?
I want to implement the keyboard of google wallet. Anyone know how to do that. The keyboard is on the page. Not the system default keyboard. Thank you Or how can I draw a keyboard?
this Link Android custom numeric keyboard will help you figure this problem
You can easily see how Google implemented the keyboard by downloading the Google Wallet APK (or by rooting your phone and pulling the APK off) and unpacking/decompiling it with your tool of choice (e.g. Procyon, CFR, JD, etc.). I can only speculate, but I think they did this to minimize the possibility of a third-party keyboard app logging the input, and so that they can "shred" the PIN in memory as soon as it has been used.
The keypad is just a bunch of buttons laid out as a table/grid, and the buttons are customized to have the subscript effect (i.e. 2ABC) using SpannableStrings.
After decompiling, you can find what you're interested in by looking at the com.google.android.apps.wallet.pin package, specifically the PinButton class. Also, look at the /res/layout/pin_view.xml layout and its includes (pin_fields.xml and pin_pad.xml).
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
i want to make an android app that works in background and get's what key is pressed in keyboard and throw Equivalent of it in another language,for example persian or arabic.
how can i do this?
thanks for your help.
I doubt you can write such APP, this would violate lots of security measures in android. But you can write your own custom soft keyboard:
How to develop a soft keyboard for Android?
user will have to choose your keyboard explicitly in settings. You will be able to do all the translations inside your keyboard.
I wish to create my own custom keyboard on android. It seems the below project on google code project should be able to achieve this. But to extension to this what I also want to add is ability to handle browser events when user is using custom keyboard. ie if user clicks on browser address bar or any text box on the page opened I should be able to determine that as well? Is there a way possible?
http://code.google.com/p/android-misc-widgets/source/checkout
Thanks,
nil
I'm not sure what your question is, but I think you are asking how to create a keyboard that is used when the user clicks on textfields in other apps. Is that right?
If you want to create your own virtual keyboard then you should definitely start by reading the Android IME Docs they are really good and even provide code for a example keyboard that you can download.