I want to show the Android version of a Model Dialog with text input however I think the keyboard will be behind the actual activity since dialogs weren't made to have inputs. Is there any way I can get the keyboard to show in an actual dialog.
I did see this SO question -- however I'd rather not use an Theme.Dialog'ed activity because I feel like an activity would be too heavy for my purposes. How can I show this Model Dialog with the keyboard input in the foreground?
This is what I am talking about:
Who said dialogs aren't made to have inputs?! A dialog can contain anything - text, buttons, progress bars, input fields. Did you try it out? A keyboard resizes your canvas, so there's no "behind"/"front" going on. (Besides, you can always summon the IME on a phone without a QWERTY
keyboard by holding the menu button - even there's a modAl dialog.)
EDIT: If you need proof, just look at the API Demos (App -> Dialog). There's an example for a dialog with text entry. Source code here: http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/app/AlertDialogSamples.html (DIALOG_TEXT_ENTRY)
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I have an in app keyboard that tries to behave like a system keyboard. So far it pops up from the bottom using Bottom Sheet, which is great.
However, unlike a system keyboard, it does not push the entire layout up when you select an EditText that might otherwise get hidden. So far all the solutions I saw on StackOverFlow seem to be about Soft/System Keyboard not an in-app implementation like mine.
Here is my activity with 3 Edit Texts
This is what happens if I click on the last Edit Text. It gets covered by the keyboard in blue
This is how I want it to be. Everything getting pushed up.
How can I achieve this?
I have a custom android keyboard. On long press popup keyboard is shown how it should. The problem is, when it pops up, the keyboard behind is darkenes.
How can i disable this, except overriding the default KeyboardView onDraw?
One more thing: how can I make the poped up keyboard buttons selected without pressing on them? In Google keyboard, when you press on a "." key, you just keep moving your finger and it selects the key on the popup. But on the default implementation of KeyboardView, you have to press on the key.
This has been bugging me for a month, hope you can help!
Solution: don't use KeyboardView. Its meant for quick prototyping, when you need a basic keyboard and are working on other things like autocorrect algorithms. No serious keyboard actually uses it, and it isn't required (you can return any view from onCreateInputView). As you ramp up UI complexity, it just quickly becomes unable to deal
I know this should not be a big challenge but it really drives me insane.
I am developing a simple soft keyboard input method and basically I have added a button to my softkeyboard, by pressing which, a dialog should pop up to prompt user to do some choices.
By far everything is ok about creating and opening the dialog. Since normally a dialog is created and displayed from outside an activity, so a flick solution could be to create a transparent activity which embedded the dialog in it. By doing so, I could easily start a dialog when user click the button on my softkeyboard.
But one tricky problem is: every time user click the button and the dialog (actually a dialog in a transparent activity) displays, it will always make my softkeyboard hide. I just need to start the dialog without any changes to the status of my softkeyboard -- I want my softkeyboard keeps showing when the dialog starts.
Here is a snapshot of Google Keyboard, it has the similar button which display a dialog and the dialog did not hide the keyboard, this is exactly what I want. So please anyone suggest me how to achieve this. Thanks so much.
THey aren't launching an Activity. They're launching a dialog. Which is tricky from an input method because its a service (you have to specify the dialog's window token to make it show) but doable.
I followed these tutorial of developer.android, "Creating an Input Method" and "SoftKeyboard - Soft Keyboard sample".
Think its everything correct, but the custom keyboard dont pop up, what im doing wrong?
Only the default keyboard shows up.
The user has to choose that input method editor, either from the Settings app (for a permanent change) or via the little keyboard icon you typically see in the lower-left corner of every input method editor.
I’ve created a search activity in my app, in the standard Android way, without custom suggestions. When a user starts typing text or presses the search button, they get a search dialog with search box, something like figure 1 from here:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/search/search-dialog.html
You’ll notice in the background is the previous activity, the words “abide”, etc.
My problem is that the previous activity is shown clear as day behind the search dialog, and its confusing for users, because users think all that is still active, and they try to press on it, but it just cancels the search dialog. And it distracts the user from the search task (are those search results, they may wonder?).
Question: how to blur (make out of focus) or darken the previous activity?
I actually see this in some app’s search screens.
I found a simple way to blur the background of the search dialog:
Basically it's just adding a (half) transparent view over the ListView (or what is under the dialog) and hide it by default. If the search dialog appears (calling onSearchRequested()) it is set to visible, if it disappears it's set back to gone (invisible).
Check out the details at my blog: http://mavistechchannel.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/blur-background-android-search-dialog/
Assuming you got dialog from a Dialog.Builder, use the following:
dialog.getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_BLUR_BEHIND);