[android-developers] Re: How to hide user dictionary? or suggested words on keyboard
Our entire product is geared around auto-complete, so the suggested words are useless in all of our applications - of which we are shipping about 40 apps at the moment. Do you know of a way to disable this? Here is a sample video of our app structure: http://www.youtube.com/boopsieinc#play/search/1/9fjTC6yoDVAYou can see how the suggested words box on Android 1.5 basically gets in the way. On Jul 1, 11:49 am, Andrew Burgess abom...@gmail.com wrote: This shouldn't happen if your text field is set as a password field, then that shouldn't be happening. Make sure to set your EditText.setInputType to TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_PASSWORD On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:17 PM, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: Normally I agree, but this is really inconvenient when the text field is for a password. 1) most passwords arent words, so it wont help 2) it shows the password in visible text 3) it makes the password hard to enter, since it autocorrects On Jul 1, 2:12 pm, Andrew Burgess abom...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't really looked into this, but I think that since this is a user preference, it should be up to the user whether suggested words pop up or not. On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:54 PM, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: ?? i know this is a simple thing i just cant find it anywhere. I have searched for hours On Jun 29, 12:29 pm, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: bump. anyone? On Jun 26, 2:26 pm, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: How can I hide the suggested words or turn off auto complete for the virtual keyboard? Thanks ;) -- Andrew Burgess -- Andrew Burgess --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to hide user dictionary? or suggested words on keyboard
Cool text search! It seems like the best platform enhancement to cover this would be to have a property on text fields that controls two things: 1) An extra dictionary for use auto-completing for that field 2) whether or not the phone's global dictionary should be used (and if custom dictionary from #1 is also present, combine the two) That way, say I was writing a text based adventure game, and it had all sorts of special sci-fi objects in it that the user had to interact with, those words could be added to a custom dictionary and added to the phone's normal suggestion dictionary. Or in the case of a text field that isn't going to receive natural language input, no dictionary should be supplied and suggestions won't happen at all. Perhaps make a suggestion on the framework list? -E On Jul 8, 1:03 pm, ggcespia g...@boopsie.com wrote: Our entire product is geared around auto-complete, so the suggested words are useless in all of our applications - of which we are shipping about 40 apps at the moment. Do you know of a way to disable this? Here is a sample video of our app structure:http://www.youtube.com/boopsieinc#play/search/1/9fjTC6yoDVA You can see how the suggested words box on Android 1.5 basically gets in the way. On Jul 1, 11:49 am, Andrew Burgess abom...@gmail.com wrote: This shouldn't happen if your text field is set as a password field, then that shouldn't be happening. Make sure to set your EditText.setInputType to TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_PASSWORD On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:17 PM, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: Normally I agree, but this is really inconvenient when the text field is for a password. 1) most passwords arent words, so it wont help 2) it shows the password in visible text 3) it makes the password hard to enter, since it autocorrects On Jul 1, 2:12 pm, Andrew Burgess abom...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't really looked into this, but I think that since this is a user preference, it should be up to the user whether suggested words pop up or not. On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:54 PM, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: ?? i know this is a simple thing i just cant find it anywhere. I have searched for hours On Jun 29, 12:29 pm, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: bump. anyone? On Jun 26, 2:26 pm, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: How can I hide the suggested words or turn off auto complete for the virtual keyboard? Thanks ;) -- Andrew Burgess -- Andrew Burgess --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to hide user dictionary? or suggested words on keyboard
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Eric F ericfrie...@gmail.com wrote: 1) An extra dictionary for use auto-completing for that field You would be best off using AutoCompleteTextView, which allows you to generate your own completions of anything you want for the text being typed. (If you don't like the exact behavior of it, you can implement your own version using the same IME APIs it does such as InputMethodManager.displayCompletions(); not that this API is public but very not documented, so your best approach would be to look at the code to AutoCompleteTextView.) -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to hide user dictionary? or suggested words on keyboard
?? i know this is a simple thing i just cant find it anywhere. I have searched for hours On Jun 29, 12:29 pm, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: bump. anyone? On Jun 26, 2:26 pm, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: How can I hide the suggested words or turn off auto complete for the virtual keyboard? Thanks ;) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to hide user dictionary? or suggested words on keyboard
I haven't really looked into this, but I think that since this is a user preference, it should be up to the user whether suggested words pop up or not. On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:54 PM, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: ?? i know this is a simple thing i just cant find it anywhere. I have searched for hours On Jun 29, 12:29 pm, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: bump. anyone? On Jun 26, 2:26 pm, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: How can I hide the suggested words or turn off auto complete for the virtual keyboard? Thanks ;) -- Andrew Burgess --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to hide user dictionary? or suggested words on keyboard
Normally I agree, but this is really inconvenient when the text field is for a password. 1) most passwords arent words, so it wont help 2) it shows the password in visible text 3) it makes the password hard to enter, since it autocorrects On Jul 1, 2:12 pm, Andrew Burgess abom...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't really looked into this, but I think that since this is a user preference, it should be up to the user whether suggested words pop up or not. On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:54 PM, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: ?? i know this is a simple thing i just cant find it anywhere. I have searched for hours On Jun 29, 12:29 pm, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: bump. anyone? On Jun 26, 2:26 pm, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: How can I hide the suggested words or turn off auto complete for the virtual keyboard? Thanks ;) -- Andrew Burgess --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to hide user dictionary? or suggested words on keyboard
This shouldn't happen if your text field is set as a password field, then that shouldn't be happening. Make sure to set your EditText.setInputType to TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_PASSWORD On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:17 PM, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: Normally I agree, but this is really inconvenient when the text field is for a password. 1) most passwords arent words, so it wont help 2) it shows the password in visible text 3) it makes the password hard to enter, since it autocorrects On Jul 1, 2:12 pm, Andrew Burgess abom...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't really looked into this, but I think that since this is a user preference, it should be up to the user whether suggested words pop up or not. On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:54 PM, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: ?? i know this is a simple thing i just cant find it anywhere. I have searched for hours On Jun 29, 12:29 pm, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: bump. anyone? On Jun 26, 2:26 pm, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: How can I hide the suggested words or turn off auto complete for the virtual keyboard? Thanks ;) -- Andrew Burgess -- Andrew Burgess --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to hide user dictionary? or suggested words on keyboard
bump. anyone? On Jun 26, 2:26 pm, cvance383 cvance...@yahoo.com wrote: How can I hide the suggested words or turn off auto complete for the virtual keyboard? Thanks ;) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
