can one prevent the Android device emulator from popping up the onscreen keyboard?

Question

I am developing an Android application. What I find most annoying during testing is, that the emulator always pops up that on-screen telephone keyboard whenever I click into a text input field. Since I input my data with the keyboard anyway I find that most annoying. Can one switch that on-screen keyboard appearance off? Or can one change that so that it at least presents a mini-qwerty keyboard as my actual device does, not that old-fashioned T9 keyboard?

Michael

Answer 1

• You can disable the virtual keyboard in Settings->Language.
• If you change orientation of the emulator it won't popup (KEYPAD_7, Ctrl-F11).
• If you use cursor keys instead of clicking the fields, probably won't popup either.

Whatever you do, keep in mind that in actual devices it usually pops up anyway.