Android Question Solved: disable soft keyboard microphone and Suggestions?

[anOparator]

Can the microphone icon on the soft keyboard be disabled?
the microphone icon appears above the alpha keypad on some devices and below the keypad on others.
I am able to clear the suggestions row but have yet to find much about the microphone icon.
Or is there an alternate keyboard that doesn't have a microphone which can be set as the default on most devices?

Thanks in advance for all pointers.

Edit: I just thought of using and am now testing:
Activity _KeyPress (KeyCode As Int) As Boolean 'Return True to consume the microphone event.

 

[Erel]

The keyboard is an external application. Your program cannot control it.

You can try this as a hint to the keyboard:

Dim jo As JavaObject = EditText1
jo.RunMethod("setPrivateImeOptions", Array("nm,com.google.android.inputmethod.latin.noMicrophoneKey"))

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...ro-phone-on-soft-input-keyboard-in-android-pr

 

[anOparator]

The microphone was not hidden until I clicked on the SearchView box OR until adding the ClearSearchBox sub on Line 43 of Main.
But that somehow overrides 'Hide Suggestions'.
Is there a setPrivateImeOptions for 'HideSuggestions'?
I found none at:
https://developer.android.com/refer...w.html#setPrivateImeOptions(java.lang.String)

or at:

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/textservice/SuggestionsInfo.html

 

[Erel]

The suggestions should be removed in the standard input type field.

 

[anOparator]

To get "Dim jo As JavaObject = et" and "et.InputType = Bit.Or(et.INPUT_TYPE_TEXT, 0x00080000)" both working I had to use "et.InputType = 0x00080000" or "et.InputType =524288"
I had fun in the forum.
https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/trying-to-turn-off-text-correction.11667/#content