Bluetooth keyboard, want to hide onscreen one

[masshuu]

So i got a bluetooth keyboard for my phone(Atrix, android 2.3.4) and I was wondering if its possible to hide the onscreen one when the bluetooth one is in use.

 

[artaxerxes]

You can d/l keyboard apps that do that. I prefer Hacker's Keyboard. It also includes a feature to automatically hide the keyboard when a physical keyboard is detected.

 

[masshuu]

I tried Hacker's Keyboard, it looks nice but it wasn't hiding. I checked the settings and it looked like it was enabled

 

[artaxerxes]

Then try swipe gestures. This will enable you to slide up, down, left, right to do a certain action. The default swipe down is to close the keyboard. If that doesn't work, go into the settings and play around.

 

[masshuu]

trying that causes text input to cease.

 

[artaxerxes]

Does the keyboard disappear?

 

[masshuu]

yes but text input goes away so i can't type

 

[artaxerxes]

Two questions:
1. Have you tried your bt keyboard w/ the multi-touch keyboard, does it input correctly?
2. What app are you using (if I may ask) that this issue is occurring? Or is it universal?

 

[masshuu]

The default keyboard doesn't disappear at all(no options to make it go away) and it won't go away in any application without stopping input

 

[artaxerxes]

Let me rephrase this, can you type anything via bt keyboard while it is paired with the device (regardless of the default keyboard) into a text field?

 

[masshuu]

the bluetooth keyboard works just fine for typing stuff in when the onscreen keyboard is visible. when its not, i can't enter text into text feilds

i can reduce the size of that keyboard in landscape mode to 15% so most of the screen is visible although it is a bit of a pain to switch around every time i use the keyboard

 

[masshuu]

anyone got any other ideas?

 

[masshuu]

I found a note taking app(evernote) that allows text input without the soft keyboard on the screen.