Game Maker - Native Input Android

Greetings everyone!
Perhaps while working on your game or application, you’ve encountered a situation where the user needed to enter some data, but the implementation wasn’t ideal (no native text selection, no proper input area, and missing other features players are used to when entering text).

This extension allows you to create any native text input field — convenient and practical.

How does it work?

android_show_input(xPct, yPct, wPct, hPct, hint, multiline, maxLen, inputType)

Creates an input field on the screen where:

• xPct (number, 0 to 1) — horizontal position of the field as a percentage of screen width.

• yPct (number, 0 to 1) — vertical position of the field as a percentage of screen height.

• wPct (number, 0 to 1) — width of the field as a percentage of screen width.

• hPct (number, 0 to 1) — height of the field as a percentage of screen height.

• hint (string) — placeholder text shown while the field is empty.

• multiline (number, 0 or 1, no/yes) — allow multi-line input.

  • 0 = single-line field (Enter will close the input).

  • 1 = multi-line field (multiple lines allowed).

• maxLen (number) — maximum text length.

  • If <= 0, no limit.

  • If > 0, for example, 64 = max 64 characters.

• inputType (number) — input type:

  • 0 = plain text

  • 1 = number

  • 2 = email

  • 3 = password (characters replaced with asterisks)

  
  
  Getting the result
  Later, in the async → social event:
  
  var t = async_load[? "type"]; if (t == "GM_NATIVE_INPUT_DONE")
  {
  var txt = string(async_load[? "value"]);
  show_debug_message("Native input: " + txt);
  // use the text as needed
  }