onKeyListener not working with soft keyboard (Android)

Question

I am using onKeyListener to get the onKey events. It works fine with the normal keyboard. But it does not work with soft keyboard. I am only able to get onKey events for num

Answer 1

I got around this by putting the listener into it's own method and calling it again after the first time. In the onCreate I call setKeyListenerForEnter();

Then, here's the method:

public void setKeyListenerForEnter(){

    final EditText search_entry = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.search_entry);
    search_entry.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener() {
        public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
            // If the event is a key-down event on the "enter" button
            if ((event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN) &&
                (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER)) {
                getSearchResults(v);
                setKeyListenerForEnter();
              return true;
            }
            return false;
        }
    });
}

I'm not sure if this is a better solution than handling the IME keyboard itself, but it is a solution.