Disable speech to text button (Micro phone) on soft input keyboard in android programmatically

Question

Thanks in advance for the help.

I am developing an android application for research purposes and need to disable the speech to text button on the soft input keyboard

Answer 1

You can't force the user input through anything other than pre-defined keyboards that already exist in the user's device.

The only way you could get around this is by programming your own custom, on-the-fly keyboard, and that is a very bad idea.

Just disable voice input programmatically by using XML declarations in the EditText you're looking at. You can do this with the attribute:

android:privateImeOptions="nm"   // nm stands for No Microphone.

If you want to set it programmatically you can try this::

        // deprecated i guess
        edt_txt.setPrivateImeOptions("nm");   
         // this one is new but it works only with Google Keyboard.
         edt_txt.setPrivateImeOptions("com.google.android.inputmethod.latin.noMicrophoneKey"); 

You can combine values in PrivateImeOptions parameter in CVS form so best option is to use:

                edt_txt.setPrivateImeOptions("nm,com.google.android.inputmethod.latin.noMicrophoneKey"); 

Take a look through here and see if you can find what you're looking for.

More info about Google Keyboard here -> look for method setOptions

Answer 2

To disable microphone button on multiple keyboard. Use property

android:privateImeOptions="nm"

But it will not work for Gboard(google native keyboard)

To disable on microphone on Gboard use

android:privateImeOptions="nm" editText.setImeOptions(IME_FLAG_NO_PERSONALIZED_LEARNING)

Answer 3

Just use this in your editText on the layout file:

android:imeOptions="flagNoPersonalizedLearning"