No, I don't have a sony phone and the emu doesn't have their IME... :( Just trying to address some complains that my users are having.
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:38 PM, jamesc <[email protected]> wrote: > As per: > http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/inputmethod/InputMethodManager.html > : > > "A client application can ask that the system let the user pick a new > IME, but can not programmatically switch to one itself." > > My point about Swype and Swiftkey is that they may also not handle > your flags correctly. Unlikely, though, as they appear, from my > experience, to be well behaved. > > I agree with your comments on IMEs; it is potentially a massive > headache and it'll be the app writers that bear the brunt of the > complaints from users when their favourite (obscure? incorrectly > written?) IME disobeys expected behaviour. > > Have you tried my suggestions of tinkering with the flags on the > Xperia device to see what happens? > > On Jul 14, 7:49 pm, Dan Dumont <[email protected]> wrote: > > My wife's phone has swipe built in and the phone keypad has all the > buttons > > I need. > > > > I emailed SE and they seem pretty clueless so far, I've followed up > asking > > them to direct me to their android development staff, because their > android > > page just points users to general android help. And their emulator setup > > does not include their IME... not fun... > > > > I can understand why Android would want to make the IME a system wide > > setting, but I'm surprised there's no permission that I can declare for > my > > app to set the default IME to the default android one. Does this not > > exist? > > > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:50 AM, jamesc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > I had issues with the X10s IME in that it ignored particular IME flags > > > (http://developer.sonyericsson.com/wportal/devworld/forum? > > > cc=gb&lc=en). You might be suffering from a similar issue. I suggest > > > that you post to the SE forum and ask them directly (they confirmed my > > > findings). > > > > > Off the top of my head (I've not got the code in front of me at the > > > moment) I did find that I got the (my) required behaviour by passing > > > in Type_NULL (or something like that) into the IME configuration > > > method. So, you *may* want to play about with the arguments and see > > > what comes out. This, however, then leads to the issue that you've > > > got different config flags for different IMEs, and as far as I know, > > > you cannot determine which IME is actually in use. You can, however, > > > find out which IMEs are present on the device, so you could apply some > > > sort of workaround if the device is an SE device (but that may affect > > > users of the standard Android IME on the SE phone...). > > > > > I'm not sure that you can enforce the use of the standard Android IME > > > because that's the responsibility of the user/security issue (also, it > > > might be a bit 'odd' when the IME is different to what they're > > > currently using). I suppose you could show the IME picker and also > > > tell the user why you're doing that (but, again, that's not the best > > > solution). > > > > > I'd be interested to hear how you get on. > > > > > One last thing, you might want to get hold of Swype and Swiftkey to > > > try those IMEs out too... > > > > > On Jul 13, 9:19 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > So Sony appears to have included their own IME with their xperia > > > > phones. > > > > > > I have an edit box for numerical input that i have specified as > number| > > > > numberDecimal|phone > > > > It allows for easy number entry and allows users to enter in decimal > > > > numbers. However the IME in the xperia phones is missing the > decimal > > > > key. > > > > Is there a way to specify it should only be using the android IME? > > > > > > Can I specify resources for specific phones similar to how I can > > > > control resources for versions of android? > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > <android-developers%[email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. 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