Episode 138: Animated IME — Oh, my!

Android Developers Backstage

Episode | Podcast

Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:30:44 +0000

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: right;"></div> <div style="text-align: right;"></div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Tt_ghZFdUy4/Xqsk9BnBKxI/AAAAAAAAO6I/Im4d5pYif7MRfbmjopmJny2XbQMiGc-UgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-04-15%2Bat%2B12.01.56%2BPM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="163" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Tt_ghZFdUy4/Xqsk9BnBKxI/AAAAAAAAO6I/Im4d5pYif7MRfbmjopmJny2XbQMiGc-UgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-04-15%2Bat%2B12.01.56%2BPM.png" width="320" /></a></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chet, Romain, Jorim, Adrian and Taran. Oh and Tor hiding the upper  right<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">.</span></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> In this episode, Tor, Chet and Romain are joined by Jorim, Adrian and Taran from the Window Manager team. We discussed newly announced capabilities of the IME (Input Method Editor) in Android  11. These new APIs allow applications to react in real-time to IME animations and thus provide a more polished and seamless user experience. It also happens to be the answer to one of your most requested features: knowing when the on-screen keyboard is showing.<br /> <br /> Subscribe to the <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/AndroidDevelopersBackstage" target="_blank">podcast feed</a> or download the <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/androiddevelopers/android_developers_backstage/ADB%20138%20Animated%20IME%20-%20Oh%2C%20My!.mp3" target="_blank">audio file</a> directly.<br /> <ul style="text-align: left;"></ul> <b>Chet</b>: <a href="http://twitter.com/chethaase" target="_blank">@chethaase</a><br /> <b>Tor</b>: <a href="http://twitter.com/tornorbye" target="_blank">@tornorbye</a><br /> <b>Romain</b>: <a href="http://twitter.com/romainguy" target="_blank">@romainguy</a><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i><i><br /></i><i>Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.</i></div> </div> <img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/AndroidDevelopersBackstage/~4/bEGn11Hq5Pg" width="1" />