How to detect hardware keyboard presence?

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Marcus picture Marcus · Mar 10, 2010 · Viewed 18.3k times · Source

Is there a way to detect if the device I'm currently running on has a hardware keyboard installed?

How do I query device capabilities anyway?

Answer

HostileFork says dont trust SE picture HostileFork says dont trust SE · Mar 10, 2010

"The flags provided by getResources().getConfiguration().keyboard are a good way of checking which keyboard (if any) is available." [1]

http://d.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Configuration.html#keyboard

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