I want to implement arabic, spanish and french soft keyboard in my android application.If User prefers French language than French keyboard should open, if user prefers Arabic than arabic keyboard should get opened......and my application is developed in android 2.2. i want this to implement programmatically. Can any one help me out ?
Thanks in advance
One solution is that you write your own keyboard and inform it that you want a custom language.
This is a little time consuming as mentioned here.
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In my application I need only english keyboard. If user changes the language(hindi) in settings page(input & language)keyboard inside my application also changes to hindi language. How to restrict keyboard to English language only?
#CommonsWare's answer is correct.
However, you should probably filter the input anyways. Forcing English keyboard doesn't force user to use only English letters. User can still long press a character or have a non-english hardware keyboard.
You could listen to text change events and reject all characters that are not accepted by your DB at that point.
See question asked previously
how to force english keyboard in android EditText
My Android application has multi language support.my problem is if I select the language(from application) then app will changed to corresponding language but keyboard is still in system language any idea to change the keyboard language too.
This isn't really that possible.
The keyboard is itself an application. Therefore, you cannot change it directly from your app, nor can you guarantee that your user will have the "Arabic" charset or addon or whatever, for they keyboard app that they employ.
Your only real and reliable solution if you wish to accomplish what you need would be to create your own keyboard input. Otherwise, it will be in the user's hands to change their keyboard to Arabic.
How to restrict user to use other language's keyboard rather then English. In my app I don't want other languages input. App should display English keyboard. Whatever default keyboard user is using should change as English keyboard for my app. Can we do like that if yes please suggest me. Thanks in advance.
How to force keyboard to show only English(UK). I need this because i want to prevent user to enter other languages like Arabic, chines etc., And if user using Arabic keyboard then i need to force my app (keyboard) to use English(UK) keyboard.
kindly help me to achieve this. Thanks in advance.
I think it would be better to filter the input keys.
Even if you will be able to force English keyboard that doesn't force users to use only English letters because they can also long press a character or even have a another hardware keyboard (non-english).
So, you should listen to some events onTextChanged for example and reject all characters that you do not want to accept.
You should never force the user to do that kind of thing. If you detect a non english keyboard, just put a pop up asking them to use an english keyboard, and give them the steps to do so !
As Thomas said, you should get answers if you're sure about doing so into the post he linked
I want to make an app that allows the user to quickly change input language on his android phone...
I've searched Android Dev but I couldn't find the appropriate class... Any ideas?
Unfortunately, you can not change the locale of the user from withing your application.
This is not possible until the date of this question.
Swiping the spacebar to change the locole (language) is a behavior due to the android's default soft keyboard.
It will not work ):