Keyboard

public class Keyboard
extends Object

java.lang.Object
   ↳ android.inputmethodservice.Keyboard


This class was deprecated in API level 29.
This class is deprecated because this is just a convenient UI widget class that application developers can re-implement on top of existing public APIs. If you have already depended on this class, consider copying the implementation from AOSP into your project or re-implementing a similar widget by yourselves

Loads an XML description of a keyboard and stores the attributes of the keys. A keyboard consists of rows of keys.

The layout file for a keyboard contains XML that looks like the following snippet:

 <Keyboard
         android:keyWidth="%10p"
         android:keyHeight="50px"
         android:horizontalGap="2px"
         android:verticalGap="2px" >
     <Row android:keyWidth="32px" >
         <Key android:keyLabel="A" />
         ...
     </Row>
     ...
 </Keyboard>
 

Summary

Nested classes

class Keyboard.Key

Class for describing the position and characteristics of a single key in the keyboard. 

class Keyboard.Row

Container for keys in the keyboard. 

XML attributes

android:horizontalGap Default horizontal gap between keys. 
android:keyHeight Default height of a key, in pixels or percentage of display width. 
android:keyWidth Default width of a key, in pixels or percentage of display width. 
android:verticalGap Default vertical gap between rows of keys. 

Constants

int EDGE_BOTTOM

int EDGE_LEFT

int EDGE_RIGHT

int EDGE_TOP

int KEYCODE_ALT

int KEYCODE_CANCEL

int KEYCODE_DELETE

int KEYCODE_DONE

int KEYCODE_MODE_CHANGE

int KEYCODE_SHIFT

Public constructors

Keyboard(Context context, int xmlLayoutResId)

Creates a keyboard from the given xml key layout file.

Keyboard(Context context, int xmlLayoutResId, int modeId, int width, int height)

Creates a keyboard from the given xml key layout file.

Keyboard(Context context, int xmlLayoutResId, int modeId)

Creates a keyboard from the given xml key layout file.

Keyboard(Context context, int layoutTemplateResId, CharSequence characters, int columns, int horizontalPadding)

Creates a blank keyboard from the given resource file and populates it with the specified characters in left-to-right, top-to-bottom fashion, using the specified number of columns.

Public methods

int getHeight()

Returns the total height of the keyboard

List<Keyboard.Key> getKeys()
int getMinWidth()
List<Keyboard.Key> getModifierKeys()
int[] getNearestKeys(int x, int y)

Returns the indices of the keys that are closest to the given point.

int getShiftKeyIndex()
boolean isShifted()
boolean setShifted(boolean shiftState)

Protected methods

Keyboard.Key createKeyFromXml(Resources res, Keyboard.Row parent, int x, int y, XmlResourceParser parser)
Keyboard.Row createRowFromXml(Resources res, XmlResourceParser parser)
int getHorizontalGap()
int getKeyHeight()
int getKeyWidth()
int getVerticalGap()
void setHorizontalGap(int gap)
void setKeyHeight(int height)
void setKeyWidth(int width)
void setVerticalGap(int gap)

Inherited methods

XML attributes

android:horizontalGap

Default horizontal gap between keys.

May be a dimension value, which is a floating point number appended with a unit such as "14.5sp". Available units are: px (pixels), dp (density-independent pixels), sp (scaled pixels based on preferred font size), in (inches), and mm (millimeters).

May be a fractional value, which is a floating point number appended with either % or %p, such as "14.5%". The % suffix always means a percentage of the base size; the optional %p suffix provides a size relative to some parent container.

android:keyHeight

Default height of a key, in pixels or percentage of display width.

May be a dimension value, which is a floating point number appended with a unit such as "14.5sp". Available units are: px (pixels), dp (density-independent pixels), sp (scaled pixels based on preferred font size), in (inches), and mm (millimeters).

May be a fractional value, which is a floating point number appended with either % or %p, such as "14.5%". The % suffix always means a percentage of the base size; the optional %p suffix provides a size relative to some parent container.

android:keyWidth

Default width of a key, in pixels or percentage of display width.

May be a dimension value, which is a floating point number appended with a unit such as "14.5sp". Available units are: px (pixels), dp (density-independent pixels), sp (scaled pixels based on preferred font size), in (inches), and mm (millimeters).

May be a fractional value, which is a floating point number appended with either % or %p, such as "14.5%". The % suffix always means a percentage of the base size; the optional %p suffix provides a size relative to some parent container.

android:verticalGap

Default vertical gap between rows of keys.

May be a dimension value, which is a floating point number appended with a unit such as "14.5sp". Available units are: px (pixels), dp (density-independent pixels), sp (scaled pixels based on preferred font size), in (inches), and mm (millimeters).

May be a fractional value, which is a floating point number appended with either % or %p, such as "14.5%". The % suffix always means a percentage of the base size; the optional %p suffix provides a size relative to some parent container.

Constants

EDGE_BOTTOM

Added in API level 3
public static final int EDGE_BOTTOM

Constant Value: 8 (0x00000008)

EDGE_LEFT

Added in API level 3
public static final int EDGE_LEFT

Constant Value: 1 (0x00000001)

EDGE_RIGHT

Added in API level 3
public static final int EDGE_RIGHT

Constant Value: 2 (0x00000002)

EDGE_TOP

Added in API level 3
public static final int EDGE_TOP

Constant Value: 4 (0x00000004)

KEYCODE_ALT

Added in API level 3
public static final int KEYCODE_ALT

Constant Value: -6 (0xfffffffa)

KEYCODE_CANCEL

Added in API level 3
public static final int KEYCODE_CANCEL

Constant Value: -3 (0xfffffffd)

KEYCODE_DELETE

Added in API level 3
public static final int KEYCODE_DELETE

Constant Value: -5 (0xfffffffb)

KEYCODE_DONE

Added in API level 3
public static final int KEYCODE_DONE

Constant Value: -4 (0xfffffffc)

KEYCODE_MODE_CHANGE

Added in API level 3
public static final int KEYCODE_MODE_CHANGE

Constant Value: -2 (0xfffffffe)

KEYCODE_SHIFT

Added in API level 3
public static final int KEYCODE_SHIFT

Constant Value: -1 (0xffffffff)

Public constructors

Keyboard

Added in API level 3
public Keyboard (Context context, 
                int xmlLayoutResId)

Creates a keyboard from the given xml key layout file.

Parameters
context Context: the application or service context

xmlLayoutResId int: the resource file that contains the keyboard layout and keys.

Keyboard

Added in API level 3
public Keyboard (Context context, 
                int xmlLayoutResId, 
                int modeId, 
                int width, 
                int height)

Creates a keyboard from the given xml key layout file. Weeds out rows that have a keyboard mode defined but don't match the specified mode.

Parameters
context Context: the application or service context

xmlLayoutResId int: the resource file that contains the keyboard layout and keys.

modeId int: keyboard mode identifier

width int: sets width of keyboard

height int: sets height of keyboard

Keyboard

Added in API level 3
public Keyboard (Context context, 
                int xmlLayoutResId, 
                int modeId)

Creates a keyboard from the given xml key layout file. Weeds out rows that have a keyboard mode defined but don't match the specified mode.

Parameters
context Context: the application or service context

xmlLayoutResId int: the resource file that contains the keyboard layout and keys.

modeId int: keyboard mode identifier

Keyboard

Added in API level 3
public Keyboard (Context context, 
                int layoutTemplateResId, 
                CharSequence characters, 
                int columns, 
                int horizontalPadding)

Creates a blank keyboard from the given resource file and populates it with the specified characters in left-to-right, top-to-bottom fashion, using the specified number of columns.

If the specified number of columns is -1, then the keyboard will fit as many keys as possible in each row.

Parameters
context Context: the application or service context

layoutTemplateResId int: the layout template file, containing no keys.

characters CharSequence: the list of characters to display on the keyboard. One key will be created for each character.

columns int: the number of columns of keys to display. If this number is greater than the number of keys that can fit in a row, it will be ignored. If this number is -1, the keyboard will fit as many keys as possible in each row.

horizontalPadding int

Public methods

getHeight

Added in API level 3
public int getHeight ()

Returns the total height of the keyboard

Returns
int the total height of the keyboard

getKeys

Added in API level 3
public List<Keyboard.Key> getKeys ()

Returns
List<Keyboard.Key>

getMinWidth

Added in API level 3
public int getMinWidth ()

Returns
int

getModifierKeys

Added in API level 3
public List<Keyboard.Key> getModifierKeys ()

Returns
List<Keyboard.Key>

getNearestKeys

Added in API level 3
public int[] getNearestKeys (int x, 
                int y)

Returns the indices of the keys that are closest to the given point.

Parameters
x int: the x-coordinate of the point

y int: the y-coordinate of the point

Returns
int[] the array of integer indices for the nearest keys to the given point. If the given point is out of range, then an array of size zero is returned.

getShiftKeyIndex

Added in API level 3
public int getShiftKeyIndex ()

Returns
int

isShifted

Added in API level 3
public boolean isShifted ()

Returns
boolean

setShifted

Added in API level 3
public boolean setShifted (boolean shiftState)

Parameters
shiftState boolean

Returns
boolean

Protected methods

createKeyFromXml

Added in API level 3
protected Keyboard.Key createKeyFromXml (Resources res, 
                Keyboard.Row parent, 
                int x, 
                int y, 
                XmlResourceParser parser)

Parameters
res Resources

parent Keyboard.Row

x int

y int

parser XmlResourceParser

Returns
Keyboard.Key

createRowFromXml

Added in API level 3
protected Keyboard.Row createRowFromXml (Resources res, 
                XmlResourceParser parser)

Parameters
res Resources

parser XmlResourceParser

Returns
Keyboard.Row

getHorizontalGap

Added in API level 3
protected int getHorizontalGap ()

Returns
int

getKeyHeight

Added in API level 3
protected int getKeyHeight ()

Returns
int

getKeyWidth

Added in API level 3
protected int getKeyWidth ()

Returns
int

getVerticalGap

Added in API level 3
protected int getVerticalGap ()

Returns
int

setHorizontalGap

Added in API level 3
protected void setHorizontalGap (int gap)

Parameters
gap int

setKeyHeight

Added in API level 3
protected void setKeyHeight (int height)

Parameters
height int

setKeyWidth

Added in API level 3
protected void setKeyWidth (int width)

Parameters
width int

setVerticalGap

Added in API level 3
protected void setVerticalGap (int gap)

Parameters
gap int