Hidden Mobile Input

OK, here's one thing from the "what's new in Unity 5".

"
ANDROID

• Disabled hidden input keyboard.

"

The thing is that I relied on that feature. Most of the time during the game, keyboard will be opened. Now after this feature is gone, how can I bring it back and why was it dropped in the first place?

 

It seems broken. Just report it as a bug. It's really annoying. It wasn't working earlier when hide mobile input was enabled and now they completely ruined it.

 

Okay. I get it now. But why did Hide Mobile Input worked before? Like you could still type in text to Input Field without the text box, although the delete key event didn't work and there was no way to select the text.

 

Alright! I'm satisfied with your answer. I am happy with the input text box since there's at least a way to get the input.
One more question though. Can I change the texture of the input box and the ok button? Or hide the OK button?

 

So just to follow up on this hidden input on Android thing... is Unity still working on improvements or did we punt here?

I see the status on this ticket:
http://issuetracker.unity3d.com/iss...doesnt-work-properly-when-turned-to-landscape
is "wont fix".

I also see however that Yury mentioned just on Apr 14th that a patch is coming. The patch release that came out on Apr 15th didn't resolve the issue for us (in 5.0.1p1) so I'm hoping this is still in process. Is that the case? Can we expect something in future patch to add support back for hidden input on Android? Any ETA at all?

 

It is same problem too

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/hide-textbox-for-touchscreenkeyboard.320005/

How to fix please ?
P/S : I am using Unity 5.0p3 release for Sam Sung Galaxy Trend Plus with Android 4.3

 

i got same problem. it was not fixed on unity5 and i'm using lastest version now.

 

Any news from Unity on this one? Is there a specific ticket for this issue?

The current Android solution is hella ugly!

Thanks

 

Bitter, I'm trying to do a plugin to be able to get the keyboard, but I can't get the text and behavior. Basically it's a mess to try to get it to work with a plugin and the current system.

Using this:

1. InputMethodManager imm = context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
2. imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT, 0); // open keyboard
3. imm.toggleSoftInput(0, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY); // close keyboard

Any ideas? I'm not able to get the entered text returned to the screen. I'm trying to create a wrapper around it to replace the standard TouchScreenKeyboard with no luck.

 

I'm using unity 5.3.1f1 and when check Hide Input Mobile and also add TouchScreenKeyboard.hideInput = true; and mainInputField.shouldHideMobileInput = true; , I still get input like that. Any solution to hide or replace inputfield with custom inputfield?
Note : I'm using UI Canvas InputField.

 

Did you read this thread? It explains exactly what's going on and the only current known workaround.

 

The same problem

 

Is that fixed in any new version now?

 

Have you found a way to hide it? The same question

 

Have you found a way to hide it? The same question

 

I've made hack to hide it https://github.com/mopsicus/unity-keyboard-hack

 

My coworker and I are developing a Unity application for a specific Android device which has no touchscreen and relies on a keyboard and mouse for input. It's incredibly jarring to click an inputfield and to type into an intermediary "mobile" inputfield when we are using a mouse and keyboard.

You say that hardware keyboards send the necessary KeyEvents for Unity's input system, so is there any way to take advantage of that for my project? Can I somehow force the mobile inputfield off?

This is a major hurdle for the project we are working on and we've gone down the path of creating our own custom inputfield but it is time consuming and requires a TON of validation on our part. I have hope that there's SOME better solution out there.

Thank you,
Sid Hays

 

Could we can an official Unity response on this? It's been just shy of 2 years since this thread started and I can't find any info about whether they're working on this or not. Unity's a big enough product that they should have contacts inside of Google that they can work with to try to get this all sorted out. I know it's nowhere near this simple, but just an acknowledgement that it's being worked on or a statement that it's been given up on would be great.

Mopsicus's hack is great, but then you can't take advantage of all the built in InputField features then such as text highlighting, displaying a carret, hiding password input, displaying different keyboard types (normal, email, dial pad, etc), and many other features.

 

Hey in the last Patch,Unity release a fixup
Regards
https://unity3d.com/unity/qa/patch-...36345.1494183182-1081011136.1491598769&page=1

 

Are you quite certain? Have you tested it and gotten it to work? I just downloaded 5.6.0p3 (which also lists these fixes) and I'm still seeing the keyboard input above the keyboard. I think this is referencing an entirely different issue.

 

So can not Unity use either mopsicus's hack or allow a smaller text input field above the keyboard (on android [samsung] phones in landscape the keyboard and text box cover the entire screen!)

 

Let me share this native edit plugin here that we've been using at Yousician: https://github.com/YousicianGit/UnityNativeEdit. The idea is to place a native input field on top of the Unity input field and hide the Unity input field. This way we get also copy pasting and text highlighting. We forked from a bit older project and have been using it for some time now. It's not perfect but works pretty nicely for us. Would be great to get more people using it and collaborating on the codebase.

 

I've check Unity 5.6.1 but he problem still exists. Any try from Unity technologies for fixing this problem from many time ago ?

 

Any news regarding this topic?

 

Guys, do you have any news ?
I tested several solutions found on the web, but nothing works.

 

Agreed, and for this reason we really need a work around. Not possible to have any user input fields in the app without making our app look so bad.

 

Seems this issue has been going on for years and still no solution??? :-(

 

The landscape keyboard entry is no longer fullscreen in latest Unity.

This looks like it
5.6.2: Android: Make SoftInput not take fullscreen on landscape orientation. (905581)

Can it be back ported to 5.5.x any way?

 

Reiterating my post above: https://forum.unity.com/threads/hidden-mobile-input.310709/#post-2928284

We are developing an app that uses ONLY hardware keyboard input. Our hardware has no touchscreen. Since it sounds like a hardware keyboard is sufficient, can we somehow disable mobile input entirely for our app? We would be forever grateful. We just want to get rid of the intermediary input field.

Thank you.

 

I guess there is still no way to hide the keyboard input box on android but is there a way to customize its layout now?

 

Like, move it completely offscreen so we can handle the rendering of the box ourselves? Is there a way to do this @Yury-Habets

 

any news guys?

 

ok guys, i create simple native code to open keyboard and detects inputs , you can download it from github https://github.com/clockfree/InputField-Native-Android-For-Unity
regards.

 

On my Galaxy S6, using your plugin, the fields are never filled. It's because Input.inputString is always empty even if I type.
If you could add the source of your plugin I think it would be easy to add a java method to retrieve it, but I dont see native sources
EDIT : after restarting the app (no rebuilding), fields are filled. So it looks like it is not quite stable. Also "most common propositions" never update themselves, space key does close the keyboard.
Can't really recommand it at this point.

 

i have used the plugin https://github.com/mopsicus/unity-keyboard-hack and it worked fine but it still allowing to copy/paste in inputbox and i don't want to allow a user to paste the text in input box
how to do this please help me

 

Thanks to Mopsicus for the "Hack" - got me up and running. But this really ought to be sorted in Unity! I just lost an hour and a half fighting this issue and now the solution I'm using doesn't allow for text entry from the keyboard when I'm debugging. C'mon guys, let's get this sorted as there must be more than a few people that need to use text input on Android without having a great big numpty white text box appearing above the on screen keyboard...

[Edit] Had to give up on the Mopsicus hack as it caused my app to crash if the input field was tapped several times. Also the lack of a caret was a bit of a bummer. Appreciate the effort though.

Am currently working with this which is pretty promising - https://github.com/YousicianGit/UnityNativeEdit

 

Hey Yury, can you expand on why this is the case? It seems so trivial but clearly it isn't. What is the blocker? The input box just looks really bad.

 

is this issue solved yet ?

 

I think I saw in the alpha something about rendering the input field offscreen? Is this it? Does this achieve what we're after?

 

Has anyone found a solid solution to hide the android input field? When I use 'Hide Mobile Input', then the back button to hide the keyboard stops working and freezes my app. It seems like it just loses the connection the app entirely and doesn't know where to go back to.

I decided to try the 'hack' of Mopsicus, which works, but it doesn't allow different fonts, vertical align, animations, etc. So after trying some stuff out I ended up having my desired InputField underneath the native input field generated by Mopsicus Plugin. Then making the native input field transparant and passing the text into my desired Unity InputField.

This solution works for now, but it feels very awkward...

It baffles me that something so simple as not including the input box above the Android keyboard could cause so much headache.

 

Any solution?