creating custom android keyboard layout [duplicate

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• Custom 'Keyboard' built in an application on Android 3 answers

I'd like to create custom layout for Android 2.3 keyboard. Where do I start? Currently I don't have any experience in Android platform.

Is it possible to hack the existing keyboard layout so that I will not have to create a new one from scratch?

Answer 1

You could refer to if you still havent resolved this :)

http://tutorials-android.blogspot.com/2011/06/create-your-own-custom-keyboard-for.html

http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/SoftKeyboard/index.html

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/inputmethodservice/Keyboard.html

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/inputmethodservice/KeyboardView.html

Answer 2

Read about creating an input method on the android dev site, specifically the Soft Keyboard example.