Using custom softkeyboard android webview

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I've tried every method I've seen for disabling the softkeyboard in an android app when using a webview. Nothing works. Instead, I decided I'd use a custom softkeyboard http://www.fampennings.nl/maarten/android/09keyboard/index.htm (SO keeps giving me an Object object error when trying to format that link). Then I noticed that the last step is to register the edittexts...which a webview wouldn't be using.

At this point I'll take any solution I can get, I simply would like to have a custom keyboard for a calculator app that supports hex. If there's a way to make a custom softkeyboard work with a webview: I'll take that answer. If there's a way to completely disable the softkeyboard and I could just write one as part of the webview: that'd be great too.

Matt Gaunt · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-15 18:49:03Z

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Would it be fair to assume the only reason the keyboard is coming up is because you are using an input.

Instead, use a div, touch/click handlers on the element to work out when the user has tapped on it, then show your custom keyboard in the webview and set the innerHTML from the keyboard presses.

Through this, there is no reason the keyboard would show up.

edited May 15, 2014 at 18:49

answered Dec 2, 2013 at 11:18

Matt Gaunt

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Rhyono Over a year ago

This appears to be the only solution, which I started working on last night shortly after posting this question. It's such a pain to do it this way, but it doesn't look like WebView has much android keyboard support so it's the only way.

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:56:09Z

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Try
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN);
This is explained on:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/WindowManager.LayoutParams.html#softInputMode

Useful links: How to develop a soft keyboard for Android?
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/creating-input-method.html

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Rhyono Over a year ago

That code hides it initially, it won't keep it hidden. Nothing, apparently, keeps it hidden. I also don't want to make an optional IME that people have to enable. I want it forced on the app but not outside of it.

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