Text input with keyboard for Android

Solar2D Android
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Hello,

Can you please tell me if and when “Text input with keyboard for Android” will be available.
I have an application i want to port but i need to input the name of the player.

Thanks in advance,

Danny [import]uid: 6873 topic_id: 1090 reply_id: 301090[/import]

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Please somebody? [import]uid: 6873 topic_id: 1090 reply_id: 2766[/import]

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You have to be very patient and Ansca appears on the forum in a random fashion. They said it will be implemented someday. Just yesterday someone asked me if I work for Ansca. I guess he got the impression by how others and myself spending much more of our private time answering questions here than Ansca who is getting paid for.

Meanwhile I have created my own keyboard and use display.newText for the output. I still can’t publish my game as they have a serious bug in app versioning and also the dalvik GC kicks in badly every 8-10 seconds. For an action game it is a no go on the Android/Corona platform. :frowning: [import]uid: 5712 topic_id: 1090 reply_id: 2773[/import]

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Mike,

I think Ansca should pay you (and others) for all the hours spent answering questions and providing help to others. If it wasn’t for this forum and the progress I saw in the Corona SDK, I wouldn’t have taken a chance and purchased a Corona license.

Tom [import]uid: 6119 topic_id: 1090 reply_id: 2774[/import]

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Mike,
Thanks for the info.
Can you share the code for the keyboard?
Can you tell me what “dalvik GC” is?
[import]uid: 6873 topic_id: 1090 reply_id: 2779[/import]

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Tom,

The people of Ansca do a good job i agree.
I just need an answer soon because of a deadline.
I hope i will get an answer from them.

Danny [import]uid: 6873 topic_id: 1090 reply_id: 2780[/import]

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Hi Danny,

>>Can you share the code for the keyboard?
Its not done yet. I don’t have case switching and numbers/Special chars in it. Just the regular QWERTY layout.

But if you still want to, I can upload the project so you can see how it works. I plan on working more on it the next days anyway.

dalvik GC == Garbage collector on the Android Dalvik VM that runs your app.

The Dalvik GC can make or break a game which needs consistant FPS. It is crucial for ANSCA to get his done right, which is possible as others have already done so.

>>I just need an answer soon because of a deadline.

Don’t wait, find an alternative. This feature request is there since Android was introduced. [import]uid: 5712 topic_id: 1090 reply_id: 2781[/import]

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Hi Danny,

I uploaded it anyway.

http://www.fantomgl.com/files/UserKeyboard.zip

Let me know when you got it so I can delete it again.

Cheers
Michael Hartlef [import]uid: 5712 topic_id: 1090 reply_id: 2784[/import]

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Hi Michael,

I downloaded the file and will try it.
Thank you very much!

Danny [import]uid: 6873 topic_id: 1090 reply_id: 2786[/import]

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No problem,

if you have questions, send me an email at
mike (at) fantomgl (dot) com [import]uid: 5712 topic_id: 1090 reply_id: 2787[/import]

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Hi Mike,
Could you please share your code for keyboard with me please?
The link you posted doesn’t work.

Thank you in advance,
Dusan
[import]uid: 5411 topic_id: 1090 reply_id: 4095[/import]

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Hi Dusan,

I was facing some hardware problems so I wasn’t able to return your email quickly. I will upload the code again tonight or tommorow.

Cheers
Michael [import]uid: 5712 topic_id: 1090 reply_id: 4117[/import]

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Thank you so much Mike!
I knew I can count on you. :wink:

Dusan
[import]uid: 5411 topic_id: 1090 reply_id: 4132[/import]

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Ok, the zip file is up again. [import]uid: 5712 topic_id: 1090 reply_id: 4137[/import]

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Thank you Mike! :slight_smile:
I already downloaded it.

D.
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hey i have added some buttons in my game. but i want these buttons to work from my keybord ? any suggestions ? [import]uid: 63289 topic_id: 1090 reply_id: 39742[/import]

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Well done!
I see this is over a year old, did you ever finish the keyboard?
It has a certain elegance over the official method of using the native system.

I was going to get to work finishing it off, but I thought you might have already finished it by now :slight_smile: [import]uid: 22381 topic_id: 1090 reply_id: 58671[/import]