Disabling the fullscreen editing view for soft keyboard input in landscape?

On Android devices that use soft keyboards, I want to prevent the fullscreen keyboard editing view (shown below) from appearing when in landscape mode (i.e. I want to see only the soft keyboard itself and my view behind it).

I assume this can be achieved using the setExtractViewShown(false) method on InputMethodService, but I am unable to access the default instance of this and do not want to implement a custom input method.

Edited to add: the view to which input is going is not a TextView (it's a View with a custom InputConnection implementation), so android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi" won't work here.

Solution 1:

I finally answered my own question:

The extract UI (i.e. the fullscreen editing mode) can be disabled at the point at which the input connection is hooked up:

@Override
public InputConnection onCreateInputConnection(EditorInfo outAttrs) {

    outAttrs.imeOptions = EditorInfo.IME_FLAG_NO_EXTRACT_UI;

    // etc.
}

Solution 2:

To do that, navigate to activity xml and paste android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi" in your code. But where should it be pasted? Have look at code of example activity xml and look at EditText:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"         
    >

    <EditText
        android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi"

        android:id="@+id/etTextInAct"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:ems="10" >   
        <requestFocus />
    </EditText>

</LinearLayout>
      

If you want more customisation options for the keyboard see http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/controls/text.html

Solution 3:

add the property android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi" to each EditText in your XML file.

Solution 4:

The answer above helped me figure out the solution for dynamically added EditTexts:

editText.setImeOptions(EditorInfo.IME_FLAG_NO_EXTRACT_UI);