Android soft keyboard reverts to default keyboard on orientation change

Question

I'm building an android soft keyboard and I can't seem to fix this bug - I have an Arabic and QWERTY keyboard and when I rotate my device on the QWERTY keyboard (or even Arabic shift), it's as if my program has "restarted" and it becomes the Arabic Keyboard without shift.

The onSaveInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState) does not work because my application does not extend Activity but InputMethodService.

I put the following in my android manifest

android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation"
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateUnchanged|adjustResize">

I tried using

    @Override
    public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
        super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);

        Log.i(MYDEBUG, "Config Changed " + currentKeyboard.equals(qwerty));

    }

However, currentKeyboard.equals(qwerty)) always results to false and I made sure it was true just before the orientation change.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Alright, after mind boggling thinking I realized the issue was with the line of code super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);

When removed, my code would change orientation but my keyboard would not be resized. Since I love the re-sizing feature of the parent, I made an array that contains all the keyboards and after changing orientation, I would update the array so that the keyboard array would have the right sizes.

@Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {

    int currentKeyboard = 0;
    boolean isShifted = kv.isShifted();
    for (int i = 0; i < keyboard.length; i++) {
        if(kv.getKeyboard().equals(keyboard[i])){
            currentKeyboard = i;
            break;
        }
    }

    super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);

    initializeKeyboardArray();
    setKeyboard(keyboard[currentKeyboard]);
    kv.setShifted(isShifted);

}

private void initializeKeyboardArray(){
    keyboard = new Keyboard[7];
    keyboard[ARABIC] = arabic;
    keyboard[ARABIC_SHIFT] = arabicShift;
    keyboard[ARABIC_SYMBOLS] = arabicSymbols;
    keyboard[ARABIC_SYMBOLS_SHIFT] = arabicSymbolsShift;
    keyboard[QWERTY] = qwerty;
    keyboard[QWERTY_SYMBOLS] = qwertySymbols;
    keyboard[QWERTY_SYMBOLS_SHIFT] = qwertySymbolsShift;
}

Not sure if this is a roundabout way of solving the problem or if this is the right way so if anyone knows a better way - please let me know.