How to send key event to an edit text

Question

For example, send a backspace key to the edit text control to remove a character or send a char code like 112 to append a character in the edittext control programmatically.

Answer 1

Take a look at this article: creating-input-method.html. Basically, you can either manually send KeyEvents or you can manually edit and commit text around the cursor in the application's Input View.These are all done via your IME's InputConnection.

Hope this helps,

Answer 2

Check for key events in your activity. for example, this code listens for back keypress:

@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event)
{
    if ((keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK))
    {
    finish();
    }
    return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
}

Answer 3

Your question is not all that clear, but I think you want to modify/append text to a TextView when certain buttons are pressed. If so, you want a combination of some of the existing answers.

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    ...
    (TextView) textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.myTextView);
}

@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event)
{
    switch(keyCode) {
    case KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK:
        // user pressed the "BACK" key.  Append "_back" to the text
        textView.append("_back");
        return true;
    case KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL:
        // user pressed the "BACKSPACE" key.  Append "_del" to the text
        textView.append("_del");
        return true;
    default:
        return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
    }
}

Whether to return true for each case you have handled (as above) or to always return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event); after your switch statement will depend on your exact requirements. Check the documentation for the behaviour of onKeyDown

If, instead of appending text in each case you want to delete a character, or move the cursor, you could do that in each case statement. Have a look at the TextView documentation for the different methods you can call. Also look at the KeyEvent documentation for a list of the keys you can check for.

Answer 4

if you want a click listener, the best way to do it is this:

View textfield = findViewById(R.id.textfield);  
textfield .setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { 
public void onClick(View v) {  
/*your code for the click event here*/ }});

if you want a backspace button, do this:

public void backSpace() {   
EditText textfield = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.textfield);  
    try {  
        textfield.getText().delete(textfield.getSelectionEnd() - 1, textfield.getSelectionStart());  
    } catch (Exception e) {  
        try {  
            textfield.getText().delete(textfield.length() - 1, textfield.length());  
        } catch (Exception myException) {  
        //textfield.getText().delete(textfield.length(), textfield.length() - 1);  
        }  
    }  
}

if you want to append a character in the EditText, do this:

EditText textfield = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.textfield);  
textfield.setText(textfield.getText().concat("112"));