I am trying to connect an external USB barcode scanner and noticed the soft keyboard would not appear while the scanner was connected. So I am assuming the external scanner is seen as an IME. I read that IMEs are not recognized with the USB Host. Yet using IME I can not get anything from a scan to a EditText. Am I wrong about using the IME or how to read the scanner to the IME?
Yes I tried an EditText similar to the IME tutorial. The EditText seems to react as if the cursor was centering but no text. I assume the barcode is read as a whole rather than individual characters. Could that cause a problem for an EditText.
Once you said an EditText should work my question turned to why not now So I exchanged the scanner and the EditText worked.
Another question though, will show and hide keyboard enable and disable the wand? How do I prevent the HandleAction from working whenever the scanner is used.