How to set/call an new input method in Android

Question

I followed these two exemples of developer.android (Creating an Input Method, Soft Keyboard sample). Think everything is correct, but the custom keyboard dont shows up.

Sorry but i dont understand the code, how i call this new keyboard?

thanks for all.

Answer 1

You can open the "Change input method" menu programatically like this:

InputMethodManager mgr = 
    (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
if (mgr != null) {
    mgr.showInputMethodPicker();
}

You may also want to open "Language & Input settings" so your users can enable your input method. You can do that like this:

startActivityForResult(
    new Intent(android.provider.Settings.ACTION_INPUT_METHOD_SETTINGS), 0);