How do i add words to the suggestions on top of the soft keyboard

Question

Is there any way to add words to the suggestions in the soft keyboard? For a specific Edittext field i would like to add a list of names to the suggestions that pops up on top o

Answer 1

Here is the source code of the soft keyboard. If you go through the code, you will see that it uses a Suggest class which inside has different dictionaries.

If you want to add words for a specific EditText you would need to add and remove or change freq of a certain word from those dictionaries.

Some issues:

• I couldn't find a way to get the InputMethodService's instance. (If you can, please answer my question here)
• Android allows developers to program their own InputMethodService. I am working on one myself and my implementation doesn't use that dictionaries. So your feature will not work with my IME.

I would suggest using Auto Complete.