setOnKeyListener not responding

Question

I am new to Android and working through a to do list example from a book. I have one Activity which is displaying an EditText and a ListView beneath it. There is an onKey ev

Answer 1

Instead of setOnKeyListener, try to implement setOnEditorActionListener. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Following code solved such problem: You just need to need to add addTextChangedListener like this.Rest is self- explanatory

    editabltText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
        @Override
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i1, int i2) {

        }

        @Override
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i1, int i2) {

        }

        @Override
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable editable)
        {


        }
    });

Answer 3

<EditText android:id="@+id/search" android:singleLine="true" android:imeOptions="actionSearch">

try to add singleLine and imeOption attributes.

Answer 4

I was able to get that same example to work by adding the following attribute to the EditText element android:inputType="text". This changed the software keyboard that came up for the user and included a Send button.

In the setOnKeyListener code, I changed it to the following:

    myEditText.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener() {
        public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
            if (event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_UP)
                if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER)
                {
                    todoItems.add(0, myEditText.getText().toString());
                    aa.notifyDataSetChanged();
                    myEditText.setText("");
                    return true;
                }
            return false;
        }
    });

Don't use KEYCODE_DPAD_CENTER as that's a hardware button for devices that had up, down, left, right arrows.

Answer 5

You could try using a OnEditorActionListener instead:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#setOnEditorActionListener(android.widget.TextView.OnEditorActionListener)

You could set on the edittext in XML:

android:imeOptions="actionDone"

and then in code:

 myEditText.setOnEditorActionListener(new EditText.OnEditorActionListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
        if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE) {
           // your action here
           return true;
        }
      return false;
    }
 )};

Answer 6

Are you using the virtual keyboard? In that case the problem is that an OnKeyListener only gets called by hardware buttons. Take a look here: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.OnKeyListener.html

The first line says: Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when a hardware key event is dispatched to this view.

Perpaps something line this will solve your problem: Validating edittext in Android