Force keyboard to english language in Android

Question

How to force keyboard to show only English(UK). I need this because i want to prevent user to enter other languages like Arabic, chines etc., And if user using Arabic keyboard then i need to force my app (keyboard) to use English(UK) keyboard.

kindly help me to achieve this. Thanks in advance.

This should not be possible, outside of a security flaw in Android. — CommonsWare, Oct 12 '15 at 13:40
Possible duplicate of [Change Keyboard input language](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12303593/change-keyboard-input-language) — Thomas Ayoub, Oct 12 '15 at 13:40

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 12 '15 at 13:45

I think it would be better to filter the input keys. Even if you will be able to force English keyboard that doesn't force users to use only English letters because they can also long press a character or even have a another hardware keyboard (non-english).

So, you should listen to some events onTextChanged for example and reject all characters that you do not want to accept.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 12 '15 at 13:42

You should never force the user to do that kind of thing. If you detect a non english keyboard, just put a pop up asking them to use an english keyboard, and give them the steps to do so ! As Thomas said, you should get answers if you're sure about doing so into the post he linked

Force keyboard to english language in Android

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