[android-developers] Re: How to Develop a Custom Soft Keyboard

2009-09-11 Thread Mark Murphy

polyclefsoftware wrote:
 In v1.5 of the SDK, the release notes include Support for user
 installation of 3rd party keyboards. So the API allows you to design
 a custom keyboard layout within a single app. But how might one go
 about developing a custom keyboard that a user could download and
 install (as opposed to compiling your own build of Android), that
 would replace the soft system keyboard in all instances?
 
 Is there any online documentation for how to get started on doing this?

There is a SoftKeyboard sample in the samples/ directory in your SDK's
android-1.5/ area. I don't know if there is more documentation than what
is in there, though.

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[android-developers] Re: How to Develop a Custom Soft Keyboard

2009-09-11 Thread polyclefsoftware

Thanks for the quick reply, Mark.

After you pointed me to that example, I searched these forums for the
softkeyboard example and found this thread describing how to use the
example:

http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/3ab619a3f127e61c

That gives me a decent place to start.

On Sep 11, 1:52 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote:
 polyclefsoftware wrote:
  In v1.5 of the SDK, the release notes include Support for user
  installation of 3rd party keyboards. So the API allows you to design
  a custom keyboard layout within a single app. But how might one go
  about developing a custom keyboard that a user could download and
  install (as opposed to compiling your own build of Android), that
  would replace the soft system keyboard in all instances?

  Is there any online documentation for how to get started on doing this?

 There is a SoftKeyboard sample in the samples/ directory in your SDK's
 android-1.5/ area. I don't know if there is more documentation than what
 is in there, though.

 --
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 Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy

 Android Training in Germany, 18-22 January 2010:http://bignerdranch.com
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