newSpellCheckerSession always returns null

Question

I\'m trying to hook into the built in Android spell checking service on my Note tablet. When I call

    final TextServicesManager tsm = (TextServicesManage         


        

Answer 1

You may want to set the local explicitly, and set last parameter to false, as it checks the active locales on the device.

final TextServicesManager tsm = (TextServicesManager) getSystemService(
        Context.TEXT_SERVICES_MANAGER_SERVICE);
spellCheck = tsm.newSpellCheckerSession(null, Local.ENGLISH, this, false); 

Answer 2

And I found the answer- Samsung disabled the feature on this model. So I'm either going to have to force users to install 2 APKs and jump some hoops, or include the library as source in my apk.