I have a problem with soft keyboard backspace in Android (4.2).
I have a custom editor in a WebView (CodeMirror), which uses an empty i
Ok, finally figured this out.
In Android 4.2 (maybe in earlier versions as well) the backspace is not sent as a sendKeyEvent(..., KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL)
by the standard soft keyboard. Instead, it is sent as deleteSurroundingText(1, 0)
.
So the solution in my case is to make a custom InputConnection
with the following:
@Override
public boolean deleteSurroundingText(int beforeLength, int afterLength) {
// magic: in latest Android, deleteSurroundingText(1, 0) will be called for backspace
if (beforeLength == 1 && afterLength == 0) {
// backspace
return super.sendKeyEvent(new KeyEvent(KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN, KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL))
&& super.sendKeyEvent(new KeyEvent(KeyEvent.ACTION_UP, KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL));
}
return super.deleteSurroundingText(beforeLength, afterLength);
}
Note: Please let me know if I am doing something stupid here, as it is my 3rd day writing for Android.
this code will be better, it work with more keyboard :D
@Override
public InputConnection onCreateInputConnection(EditorInfo outAttrs) {
outAttrs.actionLabel = null;
outAttrs.inputType = InputType.TYPE_NULL;
final InputConnection con = new BaseInputConnection(this,false);
InputConnectionWrapper public_con = new InputConnectionWrapper(
super.onCreateInputConnection(outAttrs), true) {
@Override
public boolean deleteSurroundingText(int beforeLength, int afterLength) {
if (beforeLength == 1 && afterLength == 0) {
return this.sendKeyEvent(new KeyEvent(KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN, KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL))
&& this.sendKeyEvent(new KeyEvent(KeyEvent.ACTION_UP, KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL));
}
return super.deleteSurroundingText(beforeLength, afterLength);
}
@Override
public boolean sendKeyEvent(KeyEvent event) {
if(event.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL){
return con.sendKeyEvent(event);
}else {
return super.sendKeyEvent(event);
}
}
};
try {
return public_con ;
}catch (Exception e){
return super.onCreateInputConnection(outAttrs) ;
}
}