In the current platform your IME UI can only push app content up from the bottom of the screen. If you design it to be floating so that it doesn't impact app content, you can easily put it anywhere (if nothing else make the window fill the entire screen and leave all the parts transparent except where you want to draw your UI), but if you want apps to adjust their UI to accommodate the only option is to have their content shift up from the bottom.
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Saied <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am a developer and recently completed the implementation of my > keyboard MessagEase. It's available on the Market (with its very- > different features, making it quite unlike QWERTY). > > This keyboard works fine as a replacement of the standard keyboard on > an Android Phone. But for a An Android Tablet, it would work best if > it's implemented as a floating, movable keyboard. > > (the footprint of this keyboard is mostly dependable on the size of a > human's finger; it remains the same even if the tablet's display is > much larger than a phone's. Therefore it'll take a relatively smaller > area on a tablet.) > > If I use the current SDK hooks, it will have to take a significant > portion of the screen, defeating the purpose. > > Can someone point me to the right direction in creating a floating > keyboard? or is it possible? > > Thanks. > > Saied Nesbat, > Exideas (creator of MessagEase) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
