I'm trying to show soft keyboard on Android Things, Raspberry Pi 3. I tried the methods below, but not succeeded so far:
<activity
...
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible">
and
<EditText
...
android:inputType="numberDecimal"/>
Does Android Things 7.0 support soft keyboard, or am I missing something?
Update II
: there is a bug with Dev Preview 5.1 when Google's soft keyboard doesn't show up at all.
Update
: starting with Dev Preview 4 the Android Things image is shipped with com.google.android.inputmethod.latin
preinstalled. If you're going to use a 3d party keyboard app the approach below is still valid.
You should enable the IME in Android Things Developer Preview in order for it to show up. Let's consider Google Keyboard
as an example (since it worked for you). Once the keyboard has been installed and you shell
-ed in (with adb shell
) the following options might be used:
Find out the IME ID
$ ime list -a | grep mId
Enable the IME using the fully qualified mId
Android Things 0.5+ (you might get already enabled
)
$ ime enable com.android.inputmethod.latin/.LatinIME
Android Things 0.1 - 0.4:
$ ime enable com.google.android.inputmethod.latin/com.android.inputmethod.latin.LatinIME
Note: If you'd like to use the IME "app-wide" (not "system-wide"), use ime set ID
instead of ime enable ID
.
Android Things 0.5+:
am start -n com.android.settings/.Settings\$SystemDashboardActivity
Languages & Input
-> Virtual keyboard
-> Manage keyboards
and enable the IME (should already be enabled)
Android Things 0.1 - 0.4:
am start -n com.android.settings/.Settings\$InputMethodAndLanguageSettingsActivity
Virtual keyboard
-> Manage keyboards
and enable the IME
Note: In order to close _Android_'s settings app from within shell
you can emulate a back button press multiple times with input keyevent 4
or force close the app with am force-stop com.android.settings
.