Thanks A recommendation that I'd make for a future rev of the API is that it be possible to register a callback interface to indicate when an IME is activated or deactivated.
I've read various statements that it's not good practice to trigger off an IME transition but for our app it's a pretty essential feature because we aren't interacting with local input controls at all and we need to provide a UI to both show the IME (simple) but also we need to be notified when the IME is no longer active. This is where Android development is going to get complicated. Applications that work great on the G1 or the emulator look and behave totally differently on other platforms, so although we're developing for a base system the UX is going to potentially be very different depending on the phone. Having additional interfaces like this would allow us to reduce some of these impacts. Thanks Lee On Sep 22, 6:24 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > You find out about the IME impacting your application by your application > window getting resized. That is the -only- way. Different IMEs may have > radically different approaches to interacting with the user. You certainly > can't assume they are doing anything solely or at all with the back key. > This has nothing to do with different vendors, it applies to any IME the > user may install as well. > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've been testing my application on a HTC magic and it's incompatible > > with the keyboard that ships with the magic. > > > My application allows the on-screen keyboard to be displayed when the > > user clicks on icon on the screen. When using the emulator the way > > that I determine that the keyboard has been hidden is through > > responding to the KEYCODE_BACK keyevent. > > > On the HTC keyboard there is an additional key that allows the > > keyboard to be hidden. When this key is pressed the keyboard is > > hidden but no KeyEvent is sent to the application with the result that > > the application is now out of sync with the keyboard state. > > > In general is there a way to detect software keyboard hide / show > > events in a non-vendor specific manner? This would be highly useful > > for any application that is implementing custom views. > > > Thanks > > Lee > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
