how to capture long press volume down key in android?

Question

Just wondering whether anyone could tell me how to capture the long keypress of the volume down key in android.

Elaborated question:

I wanted to create a

Answer 1

Note that to handle onKeyLongPress() you should track event onKeyDown(). and override both of them. please note the following examples.

 @Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event){
    if(keyCode==KeyEvent.KEYCODE_VOLUME_UP){
        event.startTracking();
        return true;
    }
    return super.onKeyDown(keyCode,event);
}
 @Override
public boolean onKeyLongPress(int keyCode,KeyEvent event){
    if(keyCode==KeyEvent.KEYCODE_VOLUME_UP){
        //Do your stuff here
        return true;
    }
    return onKeyLongPress(keyCode,event);
}

Also note that onKeyDown by default returns false. So by triggering onKeyDown() volume won't be increased.