Replacing the system's soft keyboard with the customized one

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I created my own keyboard on my Android Project, and it works fine; here is a little snippet of code:

mKeyboard = new Keyboard(this, R.layout .keyboard);
mKeyboardView = (CustomKeyboardView) findViewById(R.id.KeyboardArea);
mKeyboardView.setKeyboard(mKeyboard);

I make it appear whenever the user touches the editText of my Activity. My problem is that the standard keyboard is still working if I press the central botton of my emulator keyboard...furthermore despite I put this:

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"

in my AndroidManifest file but it only works for the standard keyboard...so, is it possibile to completely substitute the system's soft keyboard with my customized one?

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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Try: getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN);

See also: How to stop Soft keyboard showing automatically when focus is changed (OnStart event)

edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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answered Aug 27 '11 at 14:40

Noah

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how about... this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1109022/how-to-close-hide-the-android-soft-keyboard – Noah Aug 28 '11 at 15:06

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 01 '11 at 08:42

You just do this....

int lastwidth;

@Override
    public void onInitializeInterface() {

        if(mKeyboard!=null){
            int diswidth = getMaxWidth();
            if(lastwidth==diswidth){
                return;
            }
            lastwidth=diswidth;
        }

        alphakeyb = new Keyboard(this, R.layout.alphakey);

    }

    @Override
    public View onCreateInputView() {

        // inflatin keyboardview from xml file
        keybview = (KeyboardView) getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.customkeybview,null);

        // setting listner on keyboardview
        keybview.setOnKeyboardActionListener(this);
        // setting keyboard to keyboardview
        keybview.setKeyboard(alphakeyb);

        return keybview;

    }

You can also refer the android softkeyboard example in the API Demos

Replacing the system's soft keyboard with the customized one

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