Modifying the keyboard in Android
You can show and hide rows - kind of. You can't actually modify a keyboard after you've instantiated it with the new keyword. Instead, you can modify it at the time of instantiation: new Keyboard(this, R.xml.keyboard_layout, R.integer.keyboard_show_extra_row) I put the constant keyboard_show_extra_row in a file called keyboard.xml , but you can actually call that file anything as long as it's in the values folder: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources> <integer name=" keyboard_show_extra_row ">1</integer> </resources> and add the constant to the rows that you want controlled by this constant: <Row android:keyboardMode="@integer/keyboard_suggestions"> ... </Row> Then you just instantiate as described above. Modifying after instantiating Apparently you can't modify after instantiation. However, you can create two copies, one created with this flag an