How to programmatically get current keyboard language on an Android device

Question

I am writing an application which is using dictionaries. I want to switch between dictionaries any time user change input language. For example if the typing language is english work with english dictionary, if it is german, work with german dictionary. Is there any way to set a listener to get that change? All the answer i found were about locale and not about input language. I don't want to handle locale, locale has no effect in application, the input language does. (I am developing in minSDK=7)

Answer 1

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

InputMethodSubtype ims = imm.getCurrentInputMethodSubtype();

String locale = ims.getLocale();

You can try this code to get Current Keyboard Language regional code.

Answer 2

It is possible

imm.getCurrentInputMethodSubtype();

to return you null value. In this case you should check language of android system like this

Locale.getDefault().getLanguage()        ---> en     

otherwise you will receive NullPointerException