Daydream keyboard implementation

Question

I am attempting to implement the Daydream keyboard into an app built in Unity and am not able to get this to work. I have added the keyboard prefab as a sibling of the main camera and added two input fields with the onpointerclick function added as instructed. I however get a null reference exception and assume this is due to the daydream keyboard delegate field being blank. The example scene in the SDK shows the daydream delegate example prefab but I am unsure how to implement this for two input fields. Also does the keyboard render in the Unity editor or must it be built and run on a phone?

Answer 1

This is an old question and has probably already been answered, but I figured I'd publicize my answer anyway.

For those reading, if you haven't checked out the Keyboard Demo scene that can be found within the Demos folder of the Google VR Unity package, I would highly recommend doing so. Following this object hierarchy has worked for me in the past.

To answer your first question, it seems that they have included a KeyboardDelegateExample object within the scene's hierarchy, and then used this object as the Keyboard Delegate in the GVRKeyboardManager.

They manage to fake an Input Field by creating a background and overlaying a Text object on top. If this method does not suffice and using an Input Field is crucial in your particular case, then drop your Input Fields into two separate GVRKeyboardCanvas objects.

Clicking on either canvas will activate the GVR Keyboard. You may have to add a small script to manage the transitioning of the input field.

Lastly, no the GVR Keyboard does not render in the Unity Editor, it only appears while running a build. Hopefully this will be addressed in later releases. There are also Keyboard plugins that you may find useful on the Asset Store.