setOnEditorActionListener not working with soft keyboard submit button, but does with laptop Enter key?

Question

Can someone please provide a solution to get a working listener for the soft-keyboard DONE button, and/or explain what I\'m doing wrong in my current approach?<

Answer 1

This is an old issue that seems not to be solved yet. There's a workaround for these cases. Simply take the EditText (or whatever View you might be needing this and assign it a onEditorActionListener, like this:

final EditText editor = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.myEditText);
editor.setOnEditorActionListener(EnterOnText);

Now define the EnterOnText implementation like this:

TextView.OnEditorActionListener EnterOnText = new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
  public boolean onEditorAction(TextView view, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
    if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_GO) {
      final String msg = view.getText().toString();
      if (!msg.isEmpty()) {
        // Do whatever you need here
        ...
      }
    }
    return true;
  }
};

Now, simply change the layout's imeOptions attribute to:

android:imeOptions="actionGo"

That will, oppositely, probably make your emulator's enter key not work, but will (should) do on all physical devices.