When I click in a TextEdit in my Android app in the emulator, it wants to make any characters I type in underscored - why would that be? And then it brings up a "helpful" soft keyboard with a number of strange symbols on it - strange to me, that is; they're probably perfectly normal to somebody fluent in an Asian languages.
For some reason, the default keyboard language for emulators is Japanese (I think). Just long press on the edit text, select "Input Method" from the context menu and change the language to English in the preference screen.
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In my android application I used EditText to take text input from user.
I want that EditText only accept selective characters, for that in xml file I mentioned following property for EditText.
android:digits="#string/customDigits"
and customDigits is mentioned in strings.xml
<string name="customDigits">\u0022;\u005C;&<>\ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789!#$%\'()*+,-./:;=?#[]_`{};|~^"*"</string>
I gave multilanguage support for my android applicaton.
When I choose languages like FRENCH,GERMAN,SPANISH and EditText is in focus then it shows proper English keyboard as shown :-
But when I select JAPANESE language and EditText is in focus then it shows Japanes keyboard as shown :-
But I want to show English keyboard by default.
Kindly provide me solution.
You can try
input.setRawInputType(Configuration.KEYBOARD_QWERTY);
But from UX perspective I'd say there's nothing you should be "fixing" here. If user decides he wants Japanese, he gets Japanese. You expect certain characters but it's nothing to do with user language settings nor what type of keyboard he uses. It's none of your interest really - just reject his input if it is failing and ensure that error message (or UI) clearly indicates you expect ASCII (or whatever) to be entered in that EditText.
It may be too late, I'm facing the same issue as you.
I came up with solution imeOptions="flagForceAscii and the keyboard displaying Roman alphabet characters as first priority.
Hope it can help in somehow.
forceAscii
I want to change my Android emulator soft keyboard language. So far, I have a Japanese layout and I tried a lot of things unsuccessfully. I want to have an English (or whatsoever western Latin) layout. Can someone help me?
Long Press on the key shown below
It will show the following menu
select the appropriate keyboard type and language it will show that keyboard
I have made android app. my client ask me that change default language at soft keyboard case by case. one case, keyboard should be English keyboard, another, Korean keyboard.
how can i do?
Refer Latin IMe #grep code site . In that lookfor keyboardswitcher.class
I have some edit boxes in my app, some of them I will input English text, some of them I will input Spanish.
I'm using the standard android soft keyboard, however as my device locale is set to English, when I type Spanish in one of my "Spanish" edit boxes, the English corrective text/predictive text makes this difficult.
The only workaround I've found, is to go into the device settings and change the language over, but this is quite annoying.
Is there anyway I could have some kind of button, that when clicked would dynamically change the soft keyboards language setting? Is this exposed via any Intents?
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Try to slide your finger across the spacebar on your keyboard to change languages.
Is there anyway I could have some kind of button, that when clicked would dynamically change the soft keyboards language setting? Is this exposed via any Intents?
No, sorry.
However, you can use textNoSuggestions with your android:inputType attribute on the EditText to try to get rid of the suggestions.
In the main phone settings you can choose input languages and then you can swipe the space bar to switch.
Whenever I click on textarea on the webview, it displays a keyboard which is showing me characters in English, but whenever I start typing, my typed characters get converted into some other language (Chinese) and on rendering only that other language words are rendered instead of English.
if you are using 1.6 or higher then go to
menu>setting>language & keyboard and uncheck all the check box expect android keyboard.
may this help you?