Overriding the default android keyboard?

Well you can certainly create a custom soft keyboard, But I think you should live with what you have in you scenario. To create a new keyboard input for such a small requirement will really be an overhead to your project cost Check out SDK Sample for SoftKeyboard for more information on creating that. You can always define you action key to be smiley button Heres a code sample directly from android open source project: EditText android:id="@+id/embedded_text_editor" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:autoText="true" android:capitalize="sentences" android:maxLines="4" android:inputType="textShortMessage|textAutoCorrect|textCapSentences|textMultiLine" android:imeOptions="actionSend|flagNoEnterAction" android:maxLength="1000 note the android:inputType="textShortMessage which is doing the trick and creating a smiley button as the action button.

Well you can certainly create a custom soft keyboard, But I think you should live with what you have in you scenario. To create a new keyboard input for such a small requirement will really be an overhead to your project cost. Check out SDK Sample for SoftKeyboard for more information on creating that.

You can always define you action key to be smiley button. Heres a code sample directly from android open source project: note the android:inputType="textShortMessage" which is doing the trick and creating a smiley button as the action button.

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