Replacement soft keyboard

[canalrun]

Hello,
Is it possible to develop a replacement soft keyboard using B4A?

I have seen the IME library, but this doesn't seem like it would do it.

Has anyone developed a soft keyboard? There is supposed to be downloadable, open source, Java software for a simple replacement keyboard – I can't find it. Has anybody found this?

All I would like to do is add a macro function. That is: press a new Function key and a letter; the keyboard enters canned text. I have tried many of the Android soft keyboards from the market – none seem to do this.

Thanks,
Barry.

 

[JonPM]

Here, Erel says its not possible. But this post was almost 1 yr ago.

 

[lagore]

Did you see this post http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4android-share-your-creations/11631-custom-keyboard-creator-interface.html#post64961 on creating a custom keyboard by nfordbscndrd, it looks good, it might be what you are looking for.

 

[canalrun]

I missed that. Thanks!

 

[nfordbscndrd]

Hello,
Is it possible to develop a replacement soft keyboard using B4A?

I have seen the IME library, but this doesn't seem like it would do it.

Has anyone developed a soft keyboard? There is supposed to be downloadable, open source, Java software for a simple replacement keyboard – I can't find it. Has anybody found this?

All I would like to do is add a macro function. That is: press a new Function key and a letter; the keyboard enters canned text. I have tried many of the Android soft keyboards from the market – none seem to do this.

You can find source code and graphics for individual keys for creating a custom keyboard at http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4andr.../11631-custom-keyboard-creator-interface.html.

This gives you complete control over user input, such as creating macro keys.

 

[NeoTechni]

I wonder, being that its almost 4 years later, would it be possible to make a real Android soft keyboard yet?

 

[Roycefer]

My research into the matter: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/system-keyboard.56137/#post-353462

 

[canalrun]

Hello,

Thanks for all the responses over the years.

Shortly after I wrote the original post in 2012 I found an sample simple keyboard app written by Google in Java.

I used this as the starting point and actually wrote a soft keyboard in Java, building it using Eclipse – this was almost 4 years ago.

A lot has happened since then, the Simple Library Compiler would probably make building the soft keyboard much easier.

The posts above show some B4A solutions that have been developed since then.

Going the Java route was not too terrible, although I was limited to relatively minor additions to the keyboard.

Barry.

 

[NeoTechni]

Thank you