Re: [android-developers] how can I design a floating keyboard?

In the current platform your IME UI can only push app content up from the bottom of the screen.  If you design it to be floating so that it doesn't impact app content, you can easily put it anywhere (if nothing else make the window fill the entire screen and leave all the parts transparent except where you want to draw your UI), but if you want apps to adjust their UI to accommodate the only option is to have their content shift up from the bottom.

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Saied <saiedbn@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I am a developer and recently completed the implementation of my
keyboard MessagEase. It's available on the Market (with its very-
different features, making it quite unlike QWERTY).

This keyboard works fine as a replacement of the standard keyboard on
an Android Phone. But for a An Android Tablet, it would work best if
it's implemented as a floating, movable keyboard.

(the footprint of this keyboard is mostly dependable on the size of a
human's finger; it remains the same even if the tablet's display is
much larger than a phone's. Therefore it'll take a relatively smaller
area on a tablet.)

If I use the current SDK hooks, it will have to take a significant
portion of the screen, defeating the purpose.

Can someone point me to the right direction in creating a floating
keyboard? or is it possible?

Thanks.

Saied Nesbat,
Exideas (creator of MessagEase)

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