Null Keyboard alternative in Play Store

[Disonantemus]

No Keyboard: Hideable keyboard

• Seems to the same or better
• Play Store: Available
• Updated: 202401 (Last)
• Size: Very small
• Permissions: None
• Free no IAP

[nikp123]

* Permissions: None

Doesn't seem to be quite true, but this may be just Play Store being paranoid. Can you verify on your device that it doesn't give you permission prompts?

[Disonantemus]

Didn't ask for permissions when I installed today, but I did check with Exodus now and get:

• No Trackers
• Permissions:
  • READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
  • READ_PHONE_STATE
  • SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW
  • WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

I don't know if they are dangerous.

[nikp123]

I'm not sure why it has external storage writing, that might be potentially dangerous. Though to be fair to you I wasn't checking for this when I installed the other app, that one might be even more "potentially dangerous" as this one. In any case, I'll be using this because I don't want people downloading shady apks.

[nikp123]

It's propriatery but at least it has a discussion repo in case something's up

[nikp123]

oh yeah i completely forgot about this, i should change the readme as well

[nikp123]

Closing as Null Keyboard is merely a workaround in case scrcpy's -K parameter doesn't work out of the box.

[Disonantemus]

Maybe you can have that as an option, because there are many different international keyboards that can be trouble. Is good 2 have options, if it's not too complex.

I was testing Termux with Scrcpy in fullscreen and get here, for that use case I did a very small script, almost a 1-liner:

#!/bin/bash
adb shell wm size 1920x1080
scrcpy --stay-awake --window-borderless --fullscreen 
echo -e "\n- Returning to default resolution:"
adb shell wm size reset
adb shell wm size

In Termux I do:

• Volume+q (virtual keyboard) to hide Extra Keys.
• Alt+b (hardware keyboard), to hide virtual keyboard.

This works 4 me, but, I use an international keyboard and works only like an US keyboard, I did try --hid-keyboard and didn't work. In other apps, works as should.

[nikp123]

Oh you mean like the -K parameter only passes through the US layout onto the target device?

[nikp123]

Perhaps you'll like this behavior instead: On startup it checks for No Keyboard, if it's present it will use it. Please let me know if that's what you want.

[Disonantemus]

It's ok, 4 now I'm using my mini script.