trigger when keyboard pops up

[LED]

Hi Martin,

I didn't yet figure out how to achieve this, but is there a way to trigger a flow when the keyboard shows up?
And also when the keyboard closes (automatically or manually)
I'm now on lollipop 5.1.1.

Thanks

LED

[LED]

Any Ideas about how the keyboard could trigger a flow?

I have built a quite cool set of flows but If I can't trigger them they are pretty pointless really.

Thanks

[Martin]

To my knowledge there's no good way to detect when the keyboard becomes visible. You could try to see if trigger UI Event works.
When using the google keyboard, following settings could work:
Event type: Window opened
Package Name: com.google.android.inputmethod.latin
Text contains text: Showing text keyboard

respectively to detect when the keyboard is closed
Text contains text: Keyboard hidden

This method will probably not be very reliable.

Regards,
Martin

[LED]

thanks a lot Martin.

you know, it actually works, always and reliably on my phone.

For this to work, however, I only had to use these single words.

Text contains text: Showing
Text contains text: hidden

Thanks for the help, I'll try to post my little flows shortly then.

LED

[LED]

Sorry Martin but a have one more thing to ask if you don't mind.

If I click on a text field the keyboard pops up, then my flow is triggered which then simply shows a small widget overlay.

If I click on the overlay it shows me a default system list, with many pre-defined sentences on each row.

Currently if I click on a row my flow is simply copying it to the clipboard. I then have to long click on the text box and paste it. Question:

Is there a way for me to click/choose the sentence I'd like to bring to the text box and it is automatically pasted into the text field I was currently focused on?

I mean: I click and focus on a text field, click on the overlay to show my list, then once a value is chosen it lands automatically in the text field.

I hope I'm being clear.

Thanks once again.

LED

[LED]

Hi Martin. Please ignore my last question. I got it after reading your forum a bit further and using the control UI "sendtext" command.
Automatic is simply ridiculously powerful.

Thanks

LED

[LED]

Hi Martin,
I had this issue sorted before with your help, but now, after installing the latest version of Google keyboard, the trigger UI event cannot detect when the keyboard shows up anymore.

Google has certainly done something that makes it more difficult to detect when it's keyboard shows/hide.

Would you have any suggestions on how I can detect and trigger a flow when the keyboard show/hide.

Thanks a lot

LED

[Martin]

Hi,

No sorry, I'm not aware about any other good way to detect this.
Older ROMs used to have a way to show a notification for the keyboard switcher when the keyboard was opened. Unfortunately newer versions of Android don't have this feature anymore.

Regards,
Martin

[bogdyro]

Hi. Well, on my note 5, 6.0.1 rom it still shows a pop-up select keyboard. So trigger notification on status bar works. Process Android system and content title = Select keyboard

[LED]

Hi Martin,
The first time I asked this question was long ago. You have since found a workaround which worked for sometime but I then reported no method to "listen" for the keyboard usage worked anymore, maybe due to a google keyboard update.

However I have since looked for apps that do similar function and found that plenty of "clipboard managers" use accessibility rights to be able to detect the keyboard is open.

Automagic already has accessibility right for reading the notifications, wouldn't it be possible for you to also make automagic detect the keyboard?
It would be amazing to have the "keyboard open" trigger in the future.

Regards

LED