[android-developers] Launch SoftKeyboard without view in Android

2011-11-23 Thread Deepak Kumar
Hi All, I need the solution of following two things as early as possible:- 1)How to launch a softKeyboard even when there is no edittext or TextView present programmatically. 2)And get each character that is typed on the soft keyboard. Or wheather it is

Re: [android-developers] Launch SoftKeyboard without view in Android

2011-11-23 Thread anup Jaipurkar
Hi Deepak, Not much known about, How to launch a softkeybord. But, if your phone's UI showing some edittext field, you can definitely write there via adb shell. 1. connect the device via adb 2. touch the edittext where you want to type 3. $ adb shell 4.#input text deepak deepak will appear in

Re: [android-developers] Launch SoftKeyboard without view in Android

2011-11-23 Thread Deepak Kumar
Yeah, that is possible. But I want to know how to launch soft Keyboard programmatically if there is no edittext or textview in layout?. Please reply anyone knows about this? On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:28 PM, anup Jaipurkar androida...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Deepak, Not much

Re: [android-developers] Launch SoftKeyboard without view in Android

2011-11-23 Thread Eric Carman
I use this in a custom view. I must admit that it doesn't always seem to work - as reported by customers - but I've not had it fail for me in testing on a number of devices. I actually found this doing a lot of Google searches myself, so credit/blame goes elsewhere. While you may not need to