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Hiren Dabhi
Hiren Dabhi

Reputation: 3713

Android:how to get any KeyPress event with example?

i want to get the key value when user pressed any key and also perform action based on the key pressed in android.

e.g. if user pressed 'A' key then i want to get that value,compare,do something.

Upvotes: 16

Views: 91075

Answers (3)

Mohammed Imran
Mohammed Imran

Reputation: 29

Try this out, this works perfectly well.

@Override
public boolean onKeyUp (int keyCode, KeyEvent event){
char c = (char) event.getUnicodeChar();
//Do something....
return super.onKeyUp(keyCode, event);
}

Upvotes: 2

jfcogato
jfcogato

Reputation: 3439

Zelimir code works if your ssoo version is up to 2.3 If you have this code running in 2.3 it will not works at all, the way to control the event keys in all ssoo version is with dispatchKeyEvent()

@Override
    public boolean dispatchKeyEvent(KeyEvent event) {
        Log.d("hello", String.valueOf(event.getKeyCode()));
        return super.dispatchKeyEvent(event);
    }

With this, you can control the key pressed in a webview or wherever you are. The only bug is that you can not control the "action button" ... don't know why.

Upvotes: 5

Zelimir
Zelimir

Reputation: 11028

Answer to this question should be twofold. It is determined by the way how the key was generated. If it was press on the hardware key, then both approaches described below are valid. If it was press on the software key, then it depends on actual context.

1.) If key was result of the pressing on the soft keyboard that was obtained by long press on the Menu key:

You need to carefully override the following function:

@Override 
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {

    switch (keyCode) {
        case KeyEvent.KEYCODE_A:
        {
            //your Action code
            return true;
        }
    }
    return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
}

2.) If your activity contains EditText, and softkeyboard was obtained from it, then first approach does not work because key event was already consumed by EditText. You need to use text changed Listener:

mMyEditText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher()
{
    public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) 
    {
    }
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) 
    {
        /*This method is called to notify you that, within s, the count characters beginning at start are about to be replaced by new text with length after. It is an error to attempt to make changes to s from this callback.*/ 
    }
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) 
    {
    }
);

Upvotes: 28

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