Remote and input

com.android.inputdevices

Input Devices

Risk: With care
Source: Android itself
What it is: Remote and input

What it is

Only contains a receiver named "Android keyboard", possibly for an external keyboard.

Locates available keyboard layouts. Apps can offer additional keyboard layouts to the user by declaring a suitable broadcast receiver in their manifest.

Careful: If you are using the default Samsung keyboard, then deleting this package on some phones may cause the keyboard to completely stop working. You may get locked out of your phone if the only method to authenticate yourself is using password.

Commands

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.inputdevices

To put it back:

adb shell cmd package install-existing com.android.inputdevices

Every removal listed here is per-user only: the system image is untouched, and the restore command puts the app back from the copy already on the device. Nothing is downloaded.

This is not the directory. Here we say what a package is in general; what happens on your particular television is on your model's entry, and that one wins. The same package can be dead weight on one set and hold the home screen up on another.