Is there anything special needed for a bluetooth keyboard

[FrankR]

Is there anything special I will need to do to collect input from a bluetooth-attached keyboard?

I have been developing software for 28 years, and I have never had any situation where I had
to *select the keyboard*.

I'm working on a first LiveCode app with a new team. The team is designing custom apps and
keyboard hardware. The engineer is Insisting I research if I will have a way to select the
bluetooth keyboard from a LiveCode app. Huh?

If their design is done properly, the keyboard should just be usable. Just like plugging
in any other device on a Windows PC.

What am I missing?

[monte]

Hi Frank

Not sure of your exact situation but if your talking about a iOS and an MFi hardware accessory then you might be interested in my external accessory framework external. See http://mergext.com for info.

Cheers

Monte

[jacque]

I don't think you'd need to select a keyboard, that's done in the OS. Whatever keyboard is active should work fine with your LiveCode app.

You don't say which mobile platform you're targeting. On Android I change the keyboard frequently and it works (with some restrictions.) I haven't tested an external keyboard in iOS but I can't see why it wouldn't be the same.

If you are targeting Android, some soft keyboards crash if they manipulate the keystrokes in some ways. SwiftKey will crash. The native Android soft keyboard does not crash. Since you'll be using a hardware keyboard, I think it will work fine; there will be no data manipulation before text entry occurs. It would be very easy to test though. All you'd need is a little app with a single field that you'd just type into.

[Kerry]

Is there anything special I will need to do to collect input from a bluetooth-attached keyboard?
What am I missing?

Nothing. If you use a reliable device it will work correctly without any problems