How to override Soft keyboard keyPress event in android?
I need a listener's to detect user interaction on my activity which has a fragment attached to it, for which i have overriden diapatchTouchEvent() which is working fine for touch event and hard key events, but it does not work for soft keyboard keypress.
To intercept keyboard touch events i have tried onUserInteraction() , dispatchKeyEvents() , onKeyUp , onKeyDown but none of them is working for softkeyboard.
Is there any other way to intercept softkeyboard events in Android?
for above query i have gone through these links :
https://stackoverflow.com/a/25620981/3954050
Android SoftKeyboard onKeyDown/Up not detecting 'alternative' keys
If you want to intercept keyboard event like done, or search or enter etc, in your edit text add a imeOption like
<EditText
..../
android:id="@+id/myEditText"
android:imeOptions="actionSearch"/>
And add an EditorActionListener to that edit text.
myEditText.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
@Override
public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
boolean handled = false;
if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_SEARCH){
//Do something
}