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Keith Adler
Keith Adler

Reputation: 21178

Change android input method for WebView

I have a WebView that loads a webpage with a form and would like to use the most basic keyboard possible in order to conserve screen real estate if they are using the onscreen keyboard as their input method. I would also like to disable things like word suggestions in the onscreen keyboard. Is this possible?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1891

Answers (2)

GaRRaPeTa
GaRRaPeTa

Reputation: 5598

I think you can add some attributes to the HTMl component that will make what you want. This works in the Android devices I have tested (Samsung Galaxy 4 and Nexus 7), but I would not be surprised if this does not work in other devices.

<input autocorrect="off" autocapitalize="off" autocomplete="off" spellcheck="false"> test

<textarea spellcheck="false" autocorrect="off" autocapitalize="off" autocomplete="off"> test </textarea>

Upvotes: 0

CommonsWare
CommonsWare

Reputation: 1007379

You cannot change the input method, anywhere -- only users can change their input method.

In terms of disabling search suggestions, I haven't seen any hooks to change that behavior that are exposed from WebView, sorry.

Upvotes: 1

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