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SoftKeyboard.javaAPI DocAndroid 1.5 API25991Wed May 06 22:41:08 BST 2009com.example.android.softkeyboard

SoftKeyboard

public class SoftKeyboard extends android.inputmethodservice.InputMethodService implements KeyboardView.OnKeyboardActionListener
Example of writing an input method for a soft keyboard. This code is focused on simplicity over completeness, so it should in no way be considered to be a complete soft keyboard implementation. Its purpose is to provide a basic example for how you would get started writing an input method, to be fleshed out as appropriate.

Fields Summary
static final boolean
DEBUG
static final boolean
PROCESS_HARD_KEYS
This boolean indicates the optional example code for performing processing of hard keys in addition to regular text generation from on-screen interaction. It would be used for input methods that perform language translations (such as converting text entered on a QWERTY keyboard to Chinese), but may not be used for input methods that are primarily intended to be used for on-screen text entry.
private android.inputmethodservice.KeyboardView
mInputView
private CandidateView
mCandidateView
private android.view.inputmethod.CompletionInfo[]
mCompletions
private StringBuilder
mComposing
private boolean
mPredictionOn
private boolean
mCompletionOn
private int
mLastDisplayWidth
private boolean
mCapsLock
private long
mLastShiftTime
private long
mMetaState
private LatinKeyboard
mSymbolsKeyboard
private LatinKeyboard
mSymbolsShiftedKeyboard
private LatinKeyboard
mQwertyKeyboard
private LatinKeyboard
mCurKeyboard
private String
mWordSeparators
Constructors Summary
Methods Summary
private voidcheckToggleCapsLock()

        long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
        if (mLastShiftTime + 800 > now) {
            mCapsLock = !mCapsLock;
            mLastShiftTime = 0;
        } else {
            mLastShiftTime = now;
        }
    
private voidcommitTyped(android.view.inputmethod.InputConnection inputConnection)
Helper function to commit any text being composed in to the editor.

        if (mComposing.length() > 0) {
            inputConnection.commitText(mComposing, mComposing.length());
            mComposing.setLength(0);
            updateCandidates();
        }
    
private java.lang.StringgetWordSeparators()

        return mWordSeparators;
    
private voidhandleBackspace()

        final int length = mComposing.length();
        if (length > 1) {
            mComposing.delete(length - 1, length);
            getCurrentInputConnection().setComposingText(mComposing, 1);
            updateCandidates();
        } else if (length > 0) {
            mComposing.setLength(0);
            getCurrentInputConnection().commitText("", 0);
            updateCandidates();
        } else {
            keyDownUp(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL);
        }
        updateShiftKeyState(getCurrentInputEditorInfo());
    
private voidhandleCharacter(int primaryCode, int[] keyCodes)

        if (isInputViewShown()) {
            if (mInputView.isShifted()) {
                primaryCode = Character.toUpperCase(primaryCode);
            }
        }
        if (isAlphabet(primaryCode) && mPredictionOn) {
            mComposing.append((char) primaryCode);
            getCurrentInputConnection().setComposingText(mComposing, 1);
            updateShiftKeyState(getCurrentInputEditorInfo());
            updateCandidates();
        } else {
            getCurrentInputConnection().commitText(
                    String.valueOf((char) primaryCode), 1);
        }
    
private voidhandleClose()

        commitTyped(getCurrentInputConnection());
        requestHideSelf(0);
        mInputView.closing();
    
private voidhandleShift()

        if (mInputView == null) {
            return;
        }
        
        Keyboard currentKeyboard = mInputView.getKeyboard();
        if (mQwertyKeyboard == currentKeyboard) {
            // Alphabet keyboard
            checkToggleCapsLock();
            mInputView.setShifted(mCapsLock || !mInputView.isShifted());
        } else if (currentKeyboard == mSymbolsKeyboard) {
            mSymbolsKeyboard.setShifted(true);
            mInputView.setKeyboard(mSymbolsShiftedKeyboard);
            mSymbolsShiftedKeyboard.setShifted(true);
        } else if (currentKeyboard == mSymbolsShiftedKeyboard) {
            mSymbolsShiftedKeyboard.setShifted(false);
            mInputView.setKeyboard(mSymbolsKeyboard);
            mSymbolsKeyboard.setShifted(false);
        }
    
private booleanisAlphabet(int code)
Helper to determine if a given character code is alphabetic.

        if (Character.isLetter(code)) {
            return true;
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    
public booleanisWordSeparator(int code)

        String separators = getWordSeparators();
        return separators.contains(String.valueOf((char)code));
    
private voidkeyDownUp(int keyEventCode)
Helper to send a key down / key up pair to the current editor.

        getCurrentInputConnection().sendKeyEvent(
                new KeyEvent(KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN, keyEventCode));
        getCurrentInputConnection().sendKeyEvent(
                new KeyEvent(KeyEvent.ACTION_UP, keyEventCode));
    
public voidonCreate()
Main initialization of the input method component. Be sure to call to super class.

    
                        
        
        super.onCreate();
        mWordSeparators = getResources().getString(R.string.word_separators);
    
public android.view.ViewonCreateCandidatesView()
Called by the framework when your view for showing candidates needs to be generated, like {@link #onCreateInputView}.

        mCandidateView = new CandidateView(this);
        mCandidateView.setService(this);
        return mCandidateView;
    
public android.view.ViewonCreateInputView()
Called by the framework when your view for creating input needs to be generated. This will be called the first time your input method is displayed, and every time it needs to be re-created such as due to a configuration change.

        mInputView = (KeyboardView) getLayoutInflater().inflate(
                R.layout.input, null);
        mInputView.setOnKeyboardActionListener(this);
        mInputView.setKeyboard(mQwertyKeyboard);
        return mInputView;
    
public voidonDisplayCompletions(android.view.inputmethod.CompletionInfo[] completions)
This tells us about completions that the editor has determined based on the current text in it. We want to use this in fullscreen mode to show the completions ourself, since the editor can not be seen in that situation.

        if (mCompletionOn) {
            mCompletions = completions;
            if (completions == null) {
                setSuggestions(null, false, false);
                return;
            }
            
            List<String> stringList = new ArrayList<String>();
            for (int i=0; i<(completions != null ? completions.length : 0); i++) {
                CompletionInfo ci = completions[i];
                if (ci != null) stringList.add(ci.getText().toString());
            }
            setSuggestions(stringList, true, true);
        }
    
public voidonFinishInput()
This is called when the user is done editing a field. We can use this to reset our state.

        super.onFinishInput();
        
        // Clear current composing text and candidates.
        mComposing.setLength(0);
        updateCandidates();
        
        // We only hide the candidates window when finishing input on
        // a particular editor, to avoid popping the underlying application
        // up and down if the user is entering text into the bottom of
        // its window.
        setCandidatesViewShown(false);
        
        mCurKeyboard = mQwertyKeyboard;
        if (mInputView != null) {
            mInputView.closing();
        }
    
public voidonInitializeInterface()
This is the point where you can do all of your UI initialization. It is called after creation and any configuration change.

        if (mQwertyKeyboard != null) {
            // Configuration changes can happen after the keyboard gets recreated,
            // so we need to be able to re-build the keyboards if the available
            // space has changed.
            int displayWidth = getMaxWidth();
            if (displayWidth == mLastDisplayWidth) return;
            mLastDisplayWidth = displayWidth;
        }
        mQwertyKeyboard = new LatinKeyboard(this, R.xml.qwerty);
        mSymbolsKeyboard = new LatinKeyboard(this, R.xml.symbols);
        mSymbolsShiftedKeyboard = new LatinKeyboard(this, R.xml.symbols_shift);
    
public voidonKey(int primaryCode, int[] keyCodes)

        if (isWordSeparator(primaryCode)) {
            // Handle separator
            if (mComposing.length() > 0) {
                commitTyped(getCurrentInputConnection());
            }
            sendKey(primaryCode);
            updateShiftKeyState(getCurrentInputEditorInfo());
        } else if (primaryCode == Keyboard.KEYCODE_DELETE) {
            handleBackspace();
        } else if (primaryCode == Keyboard.KEYCODE_SHIFT) {
            handleShift();
        } else if (primaryCode == Keyboard.KEYCODE_CANCEL) {
            handleClose();
            return;
        } else if (primaryCode == LatinKeyboardView.KEYCODE_OPTIONS) {
            // Show a menu or somethin'
        } else if (primaryCode == Keyboard.KEYCODE_MODE_CHANGE
                && mInputView != null) {
            Keyboard current = mInputView.getKeyboard();
            if (current == mSymbolsKeyboard || current == mSymbolsShiftedKeyboard) {
                current = mQwertyKeyboard;
            } else {
                current = mSymbolsKeyboard;
            }
            mInputView.setKeyboard(current);
            if (current == mSymbolsKeyboard) {
                current.setShifted(false);
            }
        } else {
            handleCharacter(primaryCode, keyCodes);
        }
    
public booleanonKeyDown(int keyCode, android.view.KeyEvent event)
Use this to monitor key events being delivered to the application. We get first crack at them, and can either resume them or let them continue to the app.

        switch (keyCode) {
            case KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK:
                // The InputMethodService already takes care of the back
                // key for us, to dismiss the input method if it is shown.
                // However, our keyboard could be showing a pop-up window
                // that back should dismiss, so we first allow it to do that.
                if (event.getRepeatCount() == 0 && mInputView != null) {
                    if (mInputView.handleBack()) {
                        return true;
                    }
                }
                break;
                
            case KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL:
                // Special handling of the delete key: if we currently are
                // composing text for the user, we want to modify that instead
                // of let the application to the delete itself.
                if (mComposing.length() > 0) {
                    onKey(Keyboard.KEYCODE_DELETE, null);
                    return true;
                }
                break;
                
            case KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER:
                // Let the underlying text editor always handle these.
                return false;
                
            default:
                // For all other keys, if we want to do transformations on
                // text being entered with a hard keyboard, we need to process
                // it and do the appropriate action.
                if (PROCESS_HARD_KEYS) {
                    if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_SPACE
                            && (event.getMetaState()&KeyEvent.META_ALT_ON) != 0) {
                        // A silly example: in our input method, Alt+Space
                        // is a shortcut for 'android' in lower case.
                        InputConnection ic = getCurrentInputConnection();
                        if (ic != null) {
                            // First, tell the editor that it is no longer in the
                            // shift state, since we are consuming this.
                            ic.clearMetaKeyStates(KeyEvent.META_ALT_ON);
                            keyDownUp(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_A);
                            keyDownUp(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_N);
                            keyDownUp(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_D);
                            keyDownUp(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_R);
                            keyDownUp(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_O);
                            keyDownUp(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_I);
                            keyDownUp(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_D);
                            // And we consume this event.
                            return true;
                        }
                    }
                    if (mPredictionOn && translateKeyDown(keyCode, event)) {
                        return true;
                    }
                }
        }
        
        return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
    
public booleanonKeyUp(int keyCode, android.view.KeyEvent event)
Use this to monitor key events being delivered to the application. We get first crack at them, and can either resume them or let them continue to the app.

        // If we want to do transformations on text being entered with a hard
        // keyboard, we need to process the up events to update the meta key
        // state we are tracking.
        if (PROCESS_HARD_KEYS) {
            if (mPredictionOn) {
                mMetaState = MetaKeyKeyListener.handleKeyUp(mMetaState,
                        keyCode, event);
            }
        }
        
        return super.onKeyUp(keyCode, event);
    
public voidonPress(int primaryCode)

    
public voidonRelease(int primaryCode)

    
public voidonStartInput(android.view.inputmethod.EditorInfo attribute, boolean restarting)
This is the main point where we do our initialization of the input method to begin operating on an application. At this point we have been bound to the client, and are now receiving all of the detailed information about the target of our edits.

        super.onStartInput(attribute, restarting);
        
        // Reset our state.  We want to do this even if restarting, because
        // the underlying state of the text editor could have changed in any way.
        mComposing.setLength(0);
        updateCandidates();
        
        if (!restarting) {
            // Clear shift states.
            mMetaState = 0;
        }
        
        mPredictionOn = false;
        mCompletionOn = false;
        mCompletions = null;
        
        // We are now going to initialize our state based on the type of
        // text being edited.
        switch (attribute.inputType&EditorInfo.TYPE_MASK_CLASS) {
            case EditorInfo.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER:
            case EditorInfo.TYPE_CLASS_DATETIME:
                // Numbers and dates default to the symbols keyboard, with
                // no extra features.
                mCurKeyboard = mSymbolsKeyboard;
                break;
                
            case EditorInfo.TYPE_CLASS_PHONE:
                // Phones will also default to the symbols keyboard, though
                // often you will want to have a dedicated phone keyboard.
                mCurKeyboard = mSymbolsKeyboard;
                break;
                
            case EditorInfo.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT:
                // This is general text editing.  We will default to the
                // normal alphabetic keyboard, and assume that we should
                // be doing predictive text (showing candidates as the
                // user types).
                mCurKeyboard = mQwertyKeyboard;
                mPredictionOn = true;
                
                // We now look for a few special variations of text that will
                // modify our behavior.
                int variation = attribute.inputType &  EditorInfo.TYPE_MASK_VARIATION;
                if (variation == EditorInfo.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_PASSWORD ||
                        variation == EditorInfo.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_VISIBLE_PASSWORD) {
                    // Do not display predictions / what the user is typing
                    // when they are entering a password.
                    mPredictionOn = false;
                }
                
                if (variation == EditorInfo.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_EMAIL_ADDRESS 
                        || variation == EditorInfo.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_URI
                        || variation == EditorInfo.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_FILTER) {
                    // Our predictions are not useful for e-mail addresses
                    // or URIs.
                    mPredictionOn = false;
                }
                
                if ((attribute.inputType&EditorInfo.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_AUTO_COMPLETE) != 0) {
                    // If this is an auto-complete text view, then our predictions
                    // will not be shown and instead we will allow the editor
                    // to supply their own.  We only show the editor's
                    // candidates when in fullscreen mode, otherwise relying
                    // own it displaying its own UI.
                    mPredictionOn = false;
                    mCompletionOn = isFullscreenMode();
                }
                
                // We also want to look at the current state of the editor
                // to decide whether our alphabetic keyboard should start out
                // shifted.
                updateShiftKeyState(attribute);
                break;
                
            default:
                // For all unknown input types, default to the alphabetic
                // keyboard with no special features.
                mCurKeyboard = mQwertyKeyboard;
                updateShiftKeyState(attribute);
        }
        
        // Update the label on the enter key, depending on what the application
        // says it will do.
        mCurKeyboard.setImeOptions(getResources(), attribute.imeOptions);
    
public voidonStartInputView(android.view.inputmethod.EditorInfo attribute, boolean restarting)

        super.onStartInputView(attribute, restarting);
        // Apply the selected keyboard to the input view.
        mInputView.setKeyboard(mCurKeyboard);
        mInputView.closing();
    
public voidonText(java.lang.CharSequence text)

        InputConnection ic = getCurrentInputConnection();
        if (ic == null) return;
        ic.beginBatchEdit();
        if (mComposing.length() > 0) {
            commitTyped(ic);
        }
        ic.commitText(text, 0);
        ic.endBatchEdit();
        updateShiftKeyState(getCurrentInputEditorInfo());
    
public voidonUpdateSelection(int oldSelStart, int oldSelEnd, int newSelStart, int newSelEnd, int candidatesStart, int candidatesEnd)
Deal with the editor reporting movement of its cursor.

        super.onUpdateSelection(oldSelStart, oldSelEnd, newSelStart, newSelEnd,
                candidatesStart, candidatesEnd);
        
        // If the current selection in the text view changes, we should
        // clear whatever candidate text we have.
        if (mComposing.length() > 0 && (newSelStart != candidatesEnd
                || newSelEnd != candidatesEnd)) {
            mComposing.setLength(0);
            updateCandidates();
            InputConnection ic = getCurrentInputConnection();
            if (ic != null) {
                ic.finishComposingText();
            }
        }
    
public voidpickDefaultCandidate()

        pickSuggestionManually(0);
    
public voidpickSuggestionManually(int index)

        if (mCompletionOn && mCompletions != null && index >= 0
                && index < mCompletions.length) {
            CompletionInfo ci = mCompletions[index];
            getCurrentInputConnection().commitCompletion(ci);
            if (mCandidateView != null) {
                mCandidateView.clear();
            }
            updateShiftKeyState(getCurrentInputEditorInfo());
        } else if (mComposing.length() > 0) {
            // If we were generating candidate suggestions for the current
            // text, we would commit one of them here.  But for this sample,
            // we will just commit the current text.
            commitTyped(getCurrentInputConnection());
        }
    
private voidsendKey(int keyCode)
Helper to send a character to the editor as raw key events.

        switch (keyCode) {
            case '\n":
                keyDownUp(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER);
                break;
            default:
                if (keyCode >= '0" && keyCode <= '9") {
                    keyDownUp(keyCode - '0" + KeyEvent.KEYCODE_0);
                } else {
                    getCurrentInputConnection().commitText(String.valueOf((char) keyCode), 1);
                }
                break;
        }
    
public voidsetSuggestions(java.util.List suggestions, boolean completions, boolean typedWordValid)

        if (suggestions != null && suggestions.size() > 0) {
            setCandidatesViewShown(true);
        } else if (isExtractViewShown()) {
            setCandidatesViewShown(true);
        }
        if (mCandidateView != null) {
            mCandidateView.setSuggestions(suggestions, completions, typedWordValid);
        }
    
public voidswipeDown()

        handleClose();
    
public voidswipeLeft()

        handleBackspace();
    
public voidswipeRight()

        if (mCompletionOn) {
            pickDefaultCandidate();
        }
    
public voidswipeUp()

    
private booleantranslateKeyDown(int keyCode, android.view.KeyEvent event)
This translates incoming hard key events in to edit operations on an InputConnection. It is only needed when using the PROCESS_HARD_KEYS option.

        mMetaState = MetaKeyKeyListener.handleKeyDown(mMetaState,
                keyCode, event);
        int c = event.getUnicodeChar(MetaKeyKeyListener.getMetaState(mMetaState));
        mMetaState = MetaKeyKeyListener.adjustMetaAfterKeypress(mMetaState);
        InputConnection ic = getCurrentInputConnection();
        if (c == 0 || ic == null) {
            return false;
        }
        
        boolean dead = false;

        if ((c & KeyCharacterMap.COMBINING_ACCENT) != 0) {
            dead = true;
            c = c & KeyCharacterMap.COMBINING_ACCENT_MASK;
        }
        
        if (mComposing.length() > 0) {
            char accent = mComposing.charAt(mComposing.length() -1 );
            int composed = KeyEvent.getDeadChar(accent, c);

            if (composed != 0) {
                c = composed;
                mComposing.setLength(mComposing.length()-1);
            }
        }
        
        onKey(c, null);
        
        return true;
    
private voidupdateCandidates()
Update the list of available candidates from the current composing text. This will need to be filled in by however you are determining candidates.

        if (!mCompletionOn) {
            if (mComposing.length() > 0) {
                ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
                list.add(mComposing.toString());
                setSuggestions(list, true, true);
            } else {
                setSuggestions(null, false, false);
            }
        }
    
private voidupdateShiftKeyState(android.view.inputmethod.EditorInfo attr)
Helper to update the shift state of our keyboard based on the initial editor state.

        if (attr != null 
                && mInputView != null && mQwertyKeyboard == mInputView.getKeyboard()) {
            int caps = 0;
            EditorInfo ei = getCurrentInputEditorInfo();
            if (ei != null && ei.inputType != EditorInfo.TYPE_NULL) {
                caps = getCurrentInputConnection().getCursorCapsMode(attr.inputType);
            }
            mInputView.setShifted(mCapsLock || caps != 0);
        }