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

You can't add additional words to the ones the IME finds internally, however you can whole-sale supply your own completions via InputMethodManager.displayCompletions():

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/inputmethod/InputMethodManager.html#displayCompletions(android.view.View, android.view.inputmethod.CompletionInfo[])

This is what the auto complete text view uses to show its completions in the IME, when the IME is full screen so it can't be seen. Note that your app is still responsible for showing the completions itself, so they will be available to the user if the IME is not full screen.

(And sorry about the lack of documentation on that method.)