"Is there a way to force the use of the soft keyboard I built in my application (they are in the same AndroidManifest.xml) without having the user "activate" the keyboard in "Locale & Text"?"
I'd like to know the above as well. I have situations where different soft keyboard will be used for different forms. On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Sam<samuel.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone could help. Here is my situation: > > I have a game with a portion that up to now we have been using the > G1's hardware keyboard to implement. With the advent of 1.5 and > because of the desire for more device compatibility, we've shifted > requirements to implementing using a soft keyboard. > > I've been researching google groups and the android SoftKeyboard > sample for a while, and what I've found can only get me part of the > way. I have made a very simple custom soft keyboard (only capital > letters and a backspace key / no candidate view) and it seems to > function properly, but I had to activate it in the "Locale & Text" > section of the settings, and long press an EditText box to force the > selection of my custom keyboard. > > Is there a way to force the use of the soft keyboard I built in my > application (they are in the same AndroidManifest.xml) without having > the user "activate" the keyboard in "Locale & Text"? > > Alternatively, I want to use the default Android keyboard to do input, > but I want to deactivate the candidate view and capture KeyEvents > directly from it instead of using an EditText. Basically, is there a > way to get the same exact functionality as the hardware keyboard on > the G1 from this IME stuff? > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
