How to change Keyboard.Row background?

How to set keyboard background in Android

• This might sound stupid, but I'm seriously a newbie at Android programming. I have looked this up on the Internet, but it looks like nobody ever had difficulties with this. I am making a soft keyboard for our school Android project. I intended to make my own background for this keyboard, but I couldn't figure out how to change the keyboard's background. I made a buttonbgselector.xml file in my drawable dir: <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <item android:drawable="@drawable/button" /> <item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@drawable/buttonpressed" /> <item android:state_checkable="true" android:drawable="@drawable/button" /> <item android:state_checkable="true" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@drawable/buttonpressed" /> <item android:state_checkable="true" android:state_checked="true" android:drawable="@drawable/button" /> <item android:state_checkable="true" android:state_checked="true" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@drawable/buttonpressed" /> </selector> I tried setting the background here: @Override public View onCreateInputView() { mInputView = (KeyboardView) getLayoutInflater().inflate( R.layout.input, null); mInputView.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.buttonbgselector); mInputView.setOnKeyboardActionListener(this); mInputView.setKeyboard(mQwertyKeyboard); return mInputView; } And the keys are still the same, nothing changed.

• Answer:

  There is a XML-Attribute called http://developer.android.com/reference/android/inputmethodservice/KeyboardView.html#attr_android%3akeyBackground. Just set this attribute to a drawable and it should be fine. Add this attrbute to the KeyboardView in input.xml: <KeyboardView android:keyBackground="@drawable/buttonbgselector" .../>