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Katedral Pillon
Katedral Pillon

Reputation: 14864

Setting EditText imeOptions to actionNext has no effect

I have a fairly complex (not really) xml layout file. One of the views is a LinearLayout (v1) with two children: an EditText(v2) and another LinearLayout(v3). The child LinearLayout in turn has an EditText(v4) and an ImageView(v5).

For EditText v2 I have imeOptions as

android:imeOptions="actionNext"

But when I run the app, the keyboard's return does not check to next and I want it to change to next. How do I fix this problem?

Also, when user clicks next, I want focus to go to EditText v4. I do I do this?

For those who really need to see some code:

<LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/do_txt_view"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@color/col6"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:visibility="gone" >

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/gm_title"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_margin="5dp"
            android:background="@drawable/coldo_text"
            android:hint="@string/enter_title"
            android:maxLines="1"
            android:imeOptions="actionNext"
            android:padding="5dp"
            android:textColor="pigc7"
            android:textSize="ads2" />

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="100dp"
            android:orientation="horizontal" >

            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/rev_text"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
                android:layout_margin="5dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:background="@drawable/coldo_text"
                android:hint="@string/enter_msg"
                android:maxLines="2"
                android:padding="5dp"
                android:textColor="pigc7"
                android:textSize="ads2" />

            <ImageView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
                android:background="@drawable/colbtn_r”
                android:clickable="true"
                android:onClick=“clickAct”
                android:paddingLeft="5dp"
                android:paddingRight="5dp"
                android:src="@drawable/abcat” />
        </LinearLayout>
    </LinearLayout>

Upvotes: 106

Views: 61000

Answers (15)

SHUBHAM JHA
SHUBHAM JHA

Reputation: 11

Observation that i saw for this: When you call implicit keyboard for a particular input, the android checks whether keyboard was called for same input box previously or not.

If called for same input box just show the previous ime option for that input box or else check the ime option that is currently set and use it.

There is some kind of caching which is creating the problem.

Upvotes: 0

Atharv Kotekar
Atharv Kotekar

Reputation: 1

Add this following lines to in your EditText.

<Edittext
android:layout_height = "match_parent"
android:layout_widht = "match_parent"
android:inputType="text"
android:maxLines="1"
android:imeOptions="actionSearch"
android:imeActionLabel="Search"
android:hint = "Search Here" />

Upvotes: 0

Liong
Liong

Reputation: 1564

Only put in your EditText xml

android:inputType="text"

Upvotes: 5

Googlian
Googlian

Reputation: 6723

These three lines are enough. 

android:singleLine="true"
android:inputType="text"
android:imeOptions="actionNext"

Upvotes: 10

Mehrdad
Mehrdad

Reputation: 1637

below code is force

android:inputType="text"

Upvotes: 7

saigopi.me
saigopi.me

Reputation: 14918

<EditText
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/auth_register_re_password"
    android:hint="Enter Password Again"
    android:imeActionLabel="login"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:imeOptions="actionUnspecified"
    android:inputType="textPassword"
    android:maxLines="1"/>

Upvotes: 4

Zakhar Rodionov
Zakhar Rodionov

Reputation: 1493

Only this worked for me.

Change it:

android:maxLines="1"
android:inputType="text"
android:imeOptions="actionNext"

on that:

android:singleLine="true"
android:inputType="text"
android:imeOptions="actionNext"

Upvotes: 6

Surendra Kumar
Surendra Kumar

Reputation: 2807

Just add android:maxLines="1" & android:inputType="text" to your EditText. It will work!! :)

Upvotes: 227

welshk91
welshk91

Reputation: 1663

The answers given here were all very helpful, but I was still struggling to get my keyboard's "Next" to show.

Turns out that when you use Android's android:digits attribute in your XML, it prevents the android:imeOptions="actionNext" from working as expected.

The answer is actually to use the deprecated android:singleLine="True". This seems to force the IME Option to be respected.

Old, Non-Working Code

        <android.support.design.widget.TextInputEditText
            android:id="@+id/first_name"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:digits="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ- "
            android:ellipsize="end"
            android:hint="@string/first_name"
            android:imeOptions="actionNext"
            android:inputType="textCapWords"
            android:maxLength="35"
            android:maxLines="1" />

Working Code

        <android.support.design.widget.TextInputEditText
            android:id="@+id/first_name"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:digits="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ- "
            android:ellipsize="end"
            android:hint="@string/first_name"
            android:imeOptions="actionNext"
            android:inputType="textCapWords"
            android:maxLength="35"
            android:maxLines="1"
            android:singleLine="true" />

I'm not a fan of using a deprecated attribute, but for now it seems to get the desired result.

Upvotes: 31

Ali Nawaz
Ali Nawaz

Reputation: 2500

Finally i have got sure solution for this issue Just add these 3 lines in your edit text and it will be working fine 

        android:maxLines="1"
        android:inputType="text"
        android:imeOptions="actionDone"

Here you can add maxLines according to your requirement. Do not use singleLine as it is deprecated now. Good luck!

Upvotes: 11

pavan bangalala
pavan bangalala

Reputation: 131

Key here is to set input type and imeOptions attributes

<EditText 
   android:inputType="number"
   android:maxLines="1"
   android:imeOptions="actionSearch" />

Upvotes: 5

Mani
Mani

Reputation: 969

single line deprecated so you add below code I think inputType must.

        <EditText 
            android:inputType="text"
            android:maxLines="1"
            android:imeOptions="actionNext" />

Upvotes: 13

paulb444
paulb444

Reputation: 511

android:inputType="text"

You have to specify an inputType in order for imeOptions to function.

Upvotes: 8

voghDev
voghDev

Reputation: 5791

android:singleLine has been deprecated, it is better to combine android:maxLines="1" with android:inputType="text". This would be the code:

<EditText
        android:id="@+id/editText"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:inputType="text"
        />

Upvotes: 43

pratnala
pratnala

Reputation: 3843

singleLine is deprecated. Adding an input type (eg: android:inputType="text") also worked for me.

Use android:maxLines="1" as singleLine is deprecated

Upvotes: 52

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