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.
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how we can specify input language for specific EditText(not for the whole app) any help will be appreciated ..for example, for EditText1, I want to open the English keyboard and for EditText2 want to open some other language any help...
You can't change the user's keyboard. Only system apps can do that.
One possible workaround is to create your own custom keyboard views and switch programmatically.
For this, you have to create separate layouts and classes(extends KeyboardView) for each language keyboard
As far as I know you can't change the user's keyboard, it has to be changed by the user itself.
If you want to control if the user is introducing specific characters (f.e. chinese characters in an EditText), I would use a TextWatcher and apply a Regex pattern to evaluate the introduced String.
I know that you can specify a short message input type in order to turn the enter key of the keyboard into an emoji button and pressing it will show up the emoji list but what i want to do is open up the emoji list programatically from a button. Is this possible?
There is no functionality to add tabs to any generic keyboard. Certain keyboards may support it, but it isn't a common feature. You could write your own fully custom keyboard, but that's a lot of work and will piss off many users.
Also, I'm not sure what you mean about by like in hangouts. I use hangouts- it doesn't do anything odd with my keyboard. It stays as Swype, there's no special emoji tab. It may be a feature of your favorite keyboard based on the input type (I assume both use input type textShortMessage). But it isn't a generic feature.
See Link Android Keyboard with Emoji
Thanks and enjoy...
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
Is it possible to have Android's numeric keypad display for an EditText (the one that would show with inputType="number"), while still having an option for users to switch back to the normal QWERTY keyboard?
My input field will usually be a number, but there will be times when text is necessary so I'd like to make it very easy to enter numbers, and extremely simple to switch over to entering text.
Thanks!
Yes, you can programatically change the keyboard being used by using the setInputType() method. So for instance, you could add a button in your UI that changes the input type from just pure numbers to a full on QWERTY keyboard.
Try this. It should leave the button on the on-screen keyboard that lets you toggle between letters and numbers.
In xml, don't constrain the input--just leave it to the default of letters. (Not sure if this matters.)
mEditText.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);