creating custom android keyboard layout [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Custom 'Keyboard' built in an application on Android (3 answers) 开发者_JAVA百科 Closed 8 years ago.

I'd like to create custom layout for Android 2.3 keyboard. Where do I start? Currently I don't have any experience in Android platform.

Is it possible to hack the existing keyboard layout so that I will not have to create a new one from scratch?

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Read about creating an input method on the android dev site, specifically the Soft Keyboard example.

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You could refer to if you still havent resolved this :)

http://tutorials-android.blogspot.com/2011/06/create-your-own-custom-keyboard-for.html

http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/SoftKeyboard/index.html

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/inputmethodservice/Keyboard.html

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/inputmethodservice/KeyboardView.html