Getting the Most Out of the Android Keyboard
summary
Concrete fixes and examples: use text input layout for animated hints password toggle and proper error display; set precise inputType values to surface digits or email keyboards; use IME options and onEditorAction to make the action button do search next or done; showing and hiding requires requestFocus plus the view or window token because of InputMethodManager security. Demo builds an InputMethodService keyboard that sends camera images to the Google Vision API and maps labels to emojis it mostly works but needs better label-to-emoji mapping.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:34Why learn about the keyboard
- 3:06Basic keyboard tricks
- 4:05Text input layout
- 5:34Design support library
- 6:23Layout
- 7:30Error Messages
- 10:26Edit Text
- 11:06Input Method Actions
- 12:42XML
- 13:06Kotlin
- 14:53Actions
- 15:11Sharing at high angles
- 15:51Input Method Manager
- 17:02Show Keyboard
- 18:18Hide Keyboard
- 19:34Recap
- 20:21Theos Android Keyboard
- 21:49Questions
