Android - Get keyboard key press

Question

I want to catch the press of any key of the softkeyboard. I don\'t want a EditView or TextView in my Activity, the event must be handled from a extended View inside my Activ

Answer 1

With the hint of vasart i can get the KeyPress event. To make the keycode printable i have used the function getUnicodeChar passing it the meta button state then just a char cast solve the problem.

This is the working code:

@Override
public boolean dispatchKeyEvent(KeyEvent KEvent) 
{
    int keyaction = KEvent.getAction();

    if(keyaction == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN)
    {
        int keycode = KEvent.getKeyCode();
        int keyunicode = KEvent.getUnicodeChar(KEvent.getMetaState() );
        char character = (char) keyunicode;

        System.out.println("DEBUG MESSAGE KEY=" + character + " KEYCODE=" +  keycode);
    }


    return super.dispatchKeyEvent(KEvent);
}

Of course this work only with ASCII character.