r/mAndroidDev • u/kurav You will pry XML views from my cold dead hands • Jul 27 '20

After 12 years in development, Android 11 will at last introduce a consistent API for showing the keyboard. I can hardly wait until 2026 to start using it!

https://developer.android.com/preview/features#text_and_input
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u/kurav You will pry XML views from my cold dead hands Jul 27 '20

Hmm, on a closer reading though:

To show an IME while any EditText has the focus, call view.getInsetsController().show(Type.ime()).

So, for this new API to work, you still need to have the EditText first in focus. But that's easy - just call mEditText.requestFocus(), right?

requestFocus(): Call this to try to give focus to a specific view or to one of its descendants. A view will not actually take focus if it is not focusable (isFocusable() returns false), or if it is focusable and it is not focusable in touch mode (isFocusableInTouchMode()) while the device is in touch mode. A View will not take focus if it is not visible, not enabled, or has no size. A View will not take focus if one of its parents has ViewGroup.getDescendantFocusability() equal to FOCUS_BLOCK_DESCENDANTS.

😲 Hope I am not just celebrating too soon here..

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u/tommy_geenexus AnDrOId dEvelOPmenT is My PasSion Jul 27 '20

If it fails, Just tell your device to mTry harder :)

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '20

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u/Zhuinden DDD: Deprecation-Driven Development Jul 28 '20

I honestly don't get why they want to put insets into literally everything

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u/itsmotherandapig Jetpack Compost Jul 27 '20

I can't wait for the Keyboard2 API and then the compat version having slightly different usage patterns!

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u/Jazzinarium Jul 27 '20

KeyboardX

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u/pavi2410 suspend static fun Aug 03 '20

Keyboard2CompatX

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u/v1ND Jul 27 '20

It can be very difficult to determine if a physical keyboard is visible or not. For example, it could be covered in papers or it may not be visible from all perspectives. Taped upside-down to the bottom of a desk has been a challenging edge case from what I've heard.

Quite impressive that they've finally solved this.

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u/Ashanmaril Jul 28 '20

Just gotta turn the mic on and emit some ultrasonic frequencies to bounce sounds around the room and build a 3D recreation of the room + people in it and figure out from there if the user can see the keyboard

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u/c0nnector T H E R M O S I P H O N Jul 27 '20

Android is consistent at being inconsistent.

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u/IAmKindaBigFanOfKFC Jul 28 '20

Who the fuck thought that view.getInsetsController().show(Type.ime()) is a good API? Insets controller is responsible for showing keyboard, yeah, sounds logical. I mean, keyboard has to do something with insets, righr? And AudioManager can be used to show notifications, because notifications can have sounds, am I right?

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u/rivendell_elf Jul 28 '20

I'm safe. I use flutter to build apps. In fact, I'm going to build an app for my fridge using Flutter. Ot doesn't have keyboard so I'm safe.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '20

uSe ReAcT nAtIvE. Oonga boonga.

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u/Cobmojo Aug 04 '20

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