How to create own "EditText" by extending View? How to handle/connect soft keyboard?

Question

i'd like to create my own EditText by extending View. (Extending TextView or EditText will be considered cheating ;-)

It will have simple functionality:

• get focus on touch and show soft input keyboard
• append touched char on keyboard to text
• delete last char of text if 'delete'-button on keyboard is touched

Right now, i'm wondering how to connect the soft keyboard events to my custom view? Do you have any ideas? samples?

thank you

Answer 1

For those who are interested in a possible solution:

I have overwridden the onCreateInputConnection() method in my view and created a MyInputConnection by subclassing the abstract input connection class. From then on, i was able to handle any soft input events in my view.