On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Chris Stratton <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Jan 5, 12:48 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Jeff Enderwick <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >
> > > Or "yes"? For an application that is concerned about this, is there any
> way
> > > for such an app to disallow 3rd party IMEs?
> >
> > Sorry, not currently.
> An application could presumably forgo textual input and display its
> own grid of buttons for password (or whatever) entry.
>

Very good point.  And you also have the API in the framework to build a
softkeyboard, which is used to implement the standard soft keyboard, so a
simple keyboard is pretty easy to write.

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