SDL android keyboard Layout

Game Development
1

hello
I’m porting an app from C++/SDL to android.

It works well, but now, I try to include a custom keyboard in the app (because ibniz reacts only at certain keys)
for this I used the strategy explained here :
http://www.fampennings.nl/maarten/android/09keyboard/index.htm

I succes to display the keyboard but my SDL screen and sound is gone.
I suppose that the problem is to display the keyboard I have to add in the main activity (java) :

 @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        
        mCustomKeyboard= new CustomKeyboard(this, R.id.keyboardview, R.xml.ibnizkbrd );
        

    }

It seems to be like if

setContentView(R.layout.main);

replace the SDL screen by the layout containing the keyboard.

Anybody knows
-does the SDL screen can be explicitly drawed in the layout XML file?

  • or the android layout XML cant be “background transparent”?

Any other strategies?

thanks

2

Isn’t it better to try to modify the app to use a standard keyboard? Then you can use SDL_StartTextInput(); and all is set.

3

I’m agree that it should be better but ibniz code does not make sense with only standard keys

here you can see the doc of this soft