Questions tagged [android-keypad]

Android supports a variety of keyboard devices including special function keypads (volume and power controls), compact embedded QWERTY keyboards, and fully featured PC-style external keyboards.

In addition to the on-screen input methods, Android also supports hardware keyboards, so it's important that Android app optimize its user experience for interaction that might occur through an attached keyboard.

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How to disable all emoticons in android keyboard

I want to disable all the emoticons i.e smileys, buildings etc in my android keyboard programmatically so that user is unable to see them or enter them. My application is webview based and I have added this line to my webview layout but no…
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List view Focus while using D-PAD

In my Image there is a sidebar and ListView there, I access every Button by using D-PAD. When side bar search button has focus and I press right D-PAD button, I want the focus to go to the ListView's first item. But, in my case it goes to the second…
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Android Edit Text - Shown only alphabetic keyboard

On Edit text focus the default keyboard should be displayed with the option to switch to numeric keyboard disabled. I am aware of the options Viz 2.1 Add ontextchanged listener. 2.2 Add alphabets allowed in digists property in xml e.g…
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Is there a keypad widget for Android?

I'm working on a checkbook app, and I'd like to use a small widget like a TimePickerDialog or DatePickerDialog but one that acts like a keypad so the user can enter an account or transaction balance. I know I can use an EditText but I would like to…
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Android: Clear keyboard input when edittext is cleared

I want to set an automatic thousand separator to my edittext. I did it with an textwatcher. In public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) i save the current value of my edittext, format it with @Override public void afterTextChanged(Editable…
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android DialogFragment onKeyUp onKeyDown from onKey

How to mesure how long ex. volume up key has been pressed in DialogFragment? Unfortunately DialogFragment doesn't have methods onKeyUp, onKeyDown. :(( So who (which object) receives by default information about pressed keys? I've learnt that I can…
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handle android go button using phonegap

Am working in HTML5 and PhoneGap. Currently am facing an issue ; I couldn't handle the GO button of Android softkeyboad. My Functionality is that; I have a Login button and when i enter password and click on the GO button of the keyboard it will be…
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Keyboard issue for EditText

I have a Dialog in which I am having a EditText. Issues which I am facing are: 1). When Dialog is shown at that moment Keyboard does not come itself. So I had to programmatically bring keyboard up. InputMethodManager immOnResume =…
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Disable DONE in soft keyboard until minimum number of characters are typed in edit text

I need to keep the DONE button (imeOptions-->IME_ACTION_DONE) on android's system softboard disabled until the minimum number of characters are entered in the edit text. Any suggestions? Note: Minimum number of characters is just one such validation…
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How to set an background picture for an IME?

I would like to know how to display an image behind the keys. I have tried it like this:
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Create custom keypad for regional language?

In my application I have made a malayalam (a regional language)keypad by creating a custom Xml file.An it shows malayalam word.But when I click I am not able to parse keypad values.It is showing an error in log cat.Is there any method to implement…
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Activity with numeric keyboard

How to set Activity with numeric keyboard,I know that we can specify numeric keyboard for each controls like this
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how to display popup keys on android virtual keyboard?

I am newbie to android application development. I am currently developing a virtual keyboard with unicode characters. As the number of characters are too many to be displayed on the keyboard, some of them are hidden and only showup when the user…
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How can i build custom softkeyboard for my android application?

I developed an android application with custom softkey for input fields. It is working good for my xml input fields. I am not able to integrate it with facebook sharing login dialog box. I searched in google play there is lot of softkey board…
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Events of Android AVD Emulator keyboard

How to get the key events of the AVD emulator keyboard in my application I want to move my Sprite i.e Character based on arrow keys in keyboard of android emulator ? Say Per one click on arrow keys of android emulator I want to move my Sprite 1.0f…
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