Android Inputmethodeditor Layout File. Non-key/row Elements In The Xml?

I'm trying to implement a keyboard with a TextView that updates with each keypress, but it won't show up on the screen. It should appear above the top row of letters. When I run th

Solution 1:

You will have to change your keyboard layout to contain your TextView and KeyboardView.

1) change IME layout as below:

<LinearLayoutxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:orientation="vertical"><RelativeLayoutandroid:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        ><TextViewandroid:id="@+id/tvKeyboard"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="48dp"android:gravity="center"android:padding="10dp"android:scaleType="fitEnd"android:src="@drawable/keyboard_icon" /></RelativeLayout><android.inputmethodservice.KeyboardViewxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"android:id="@+id/keyboard"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"android:keyPreviewLayout ="@layout/preview"
    /></LinearLayout>

2) In your IME class make a few changes:

@Overridepublic View onCreateInputView() {

    finalViewroot= getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.idee_keyboard_layout, null);

    TextViewtvKeyboard= (TextView) root.findViewById(R.id.tvRevertKeyboard);

    tvKeyboard.setText("set your text here");

    kv = (KeyboardView) root.findViewById(R.id.keyboard);

    keyboard = newKeyboard(this, R.xml.qwerty);
    kv.setKeyboard(keyboard);
    kv.setOnKeyboardActionListener(this);
    return root;
} 

Done.

Solution 2:

Nesting the TextView in the ReleativeLayout and that RelativeLayout with the KeyboardView in a LinearLayout resulted in the TextView being displayed. A couple more bugs came up, but after rebuilding the project, they subsided. Thanks for the help!