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I am trying to understand the difference between the textMultiLine and
textImeMultiLine options for android:inputType in an EditText. However
I have not been able to understand an answer. The documentation
says
IME is a control enabling users to enter text.
but I don't understand how texMultiLine is different from textImeMultiLine.
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TextImeMultiLine is for accepting text that is, "not directly represented on the keyboard," like from languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Ime is input method editor.
The android:inputType attribute allows you to specify various behaviors for the input method. Most importantly, if your text field is intended for basic text input (such as for a text message), you should enable auto spelling correction with the "textAutoCorrect" value.
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Multi-line EditText with Done action button.
TextImeMultiLine: Flag for TYPE_CLASS_TEXT: the regular text view associated with this should not be multi-line,
but when a fullscreen input method is providing text it should use multiple lines if it can.
TextMultiLine: Flag for TYPE_CLASS_TEXT: multiple lines of text can be entered into the field. If this flag is not set, the text field will be constrained to a single line. The IME may also choose not to display an enter key when this flag is not set, as there should be no need to create new lines.
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What I was able discern in Googling it... TextImeMultiLine is for accepting text that is, "not directly represented on the keyboard," like from languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Ime is input method editor.
An IME (input-method editor) is an application that allows a standard keyboard (such as a US-101 keyboard) to be used to type characters and symbols that are not directly represented on the keyboard itself.
https://www.w3.org/TR/ime-api/#IME
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