Is there a way to prompt the user for the input method on android?

I want to make a custom keyboard for my word game app. But it's not very user friendly for the user to go to Language Settings and enable it there and then hold on some text input and select my custom input method. Is 开发者_如何转开发there a built-in call that i could use to prompt the user to select a input method on the app start? Something like when you're prompted to turn on bluetooth and bt disovery. If this is not possible would it be a memory hog to create my own View with buttons on it that would simulate the keyboard and send chars to the EditText or TextView for displaying what is currently typed in.

You can just start an Activity using the following Intent :

startActivity(new Intent(android.provider.Settings.ACTION_INPUT_METHOD_SETTINGS));

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