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Adding EditText With Google Input Option While Sharing In Phimpme App

In Phimpme Android App an user can share images on multiple platforms. While sharing we have also included caption option to enter description about the image. That caption can be entered by using keyboard as well Google Voice Input method. So in this post, I will be explaining how to add edittext with google voice input option.

Let’s get started

Step-1 Add EditText and Mic Button in layout file

<ImageView
       android:layout_width="20dp"
       android:id="@+id/button_mic"
       android:layout_height="20dp"
       android:background="?android:attr/selectableItemBackground"
       android:background="@drawable/ic_mic_black"
       android:scaleType="fitCenter" />
</RelativeLayout>


Caption Option in Share Activity in Phimpme

In Phimpme we have material design dialog box so right now I am using getTextInputDialogBox(). It will prompt the material design dialog box to enter caption to share image on multiple platform.

Step-2

Now we can get caption from edittext easily using the following code.

if (!captionText.isEmpty()) {
  caption = captionText;
  text_caption.setText(caption);
  captionEditText.setSelection(caption.length());
} else {
  caption = null;
  text_caption.setText(caption);
}


Step – 3 (Now add option Google Voice input option)

To use google input option I have added a global function in Utils class. To use that method just call that method with proper arguments.

public static void promptSpeechInput(Activity activity, int requestCode, View parentView, String promtMsg) {
  Intent intent = new Intent(RecognizerIntent.ACTION_RECOGNIZE_SPEECH);
  intent.putExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_LANGUAGE_MODEL, RecognizerIntent.LANGUAGE_MODEL_FREE_FORM);
  intent.putExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_LANGUAGE, Locale.getDefault());
  intent.putExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_PROMPT, promtMsg);
  try {
      activity.startActivityForResult(intent, requestCode);
  } catch (ActivityNotFoundException a) {
      SnackBarHandler.show(parentView,activity.getString(R.string.speech_not_supported));
  }

}

Just pass the request code to receive the speech text in onActvityResult() method and passs promt message which will be visible to user.

Step – 4 (Set text to caption )

if (requestCode == REQ_CODE_SPEECH_INPUT && data!=null){
       ArrayList<String> result = data.getStringArrayListExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_RESULTS);
       String voiceInput = result.get(0);
       text_caption.setText(voiceInput);
       caption = voiceInput;
       return;

}

Now we can set the text in caption string right now I am adding text in existing caption i.e If the user enter some text using edittext and after that user clicked on mic button then the extra text will be added after the previous text.

So this is how I have used Google voice input method and made the function globally.

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