keypad

I'm making a very simple pong game in java and I'm doing this using KeyListener. I want it so when the user presses the right or left keys on the keypad, the pong block goes in that direction. This is a simple enough task, but what I'm finding out is that when the user holds down the key, the block moves once, stops for a short time, then continues moving until the user releases the key. I notice this happens when you try to hold down a letter key on a computer. If I try to hold down the 'a' key, the computer will do: a [pause] aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Is there someway to disable this stutter, because

In android, how do we make the device keypad always visible in the application? The top portion displays the content the application wants to render and bottom portion displays the keypad always. Add android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible" to your activity in the AndroidManifest.xml file: <activity android:name=".MainActivity" android:label="@string/app_name" android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible" /> In my test app this shows the keyboard on starting of the application although it isn't fixed there but can be dismissed by pressing the back button. To make sure the keyboard