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Is it possible to know the keyboard being used by the user? How do I check if the user is using a Swype keyboard?
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Swype replaces your Android phone's on-screen keyboard with a slightly strange-sounding alternative: Rather than tapping keys individually, you slide your finger around your screen — without ever lifting it — to input the words you want.
In February 2018, the Android app was pulled from the Play Store. The iOS app was also pulled from the App Store. Starting from 2018, users have to use Aptoide to download the full version of Swype. In late February 2018, the full version of Swype was discontinued.
Android provides no direct way to determine if the keyboard is open, so we have to get a little creative. The View class has a handy method called getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame from which we can retrieve a rectangle which contains the portion of the view visible to the user.
You can retrieve the current default keyboard using:
String currentKeyboard = Settings.Secure.getString(getContentResolver(), Settings.Secure.DEFAULT_INPUT_METHOD);
You will get a result like com.touchtype.swiftkey/com.touchtype.KeyboardService for various keyboards. The first part is the main package name of the keyboard, and the second is the name of the Keyboard Service it uses. Simply parse this String to see if it matches the info for Swype (I can only provide SwiftKey's details right now, as I don't have Swype installed).
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