Keyboard input in android NDK using NativeActivity

Question

I\'m looking for a way of getting input from the software keyboard from a Android NativeActivity.

I found this, that provides some sample code of how to get the sof

Answer 1

If anyone wonders, you access keyboard input the usual way, in your callback assigned to the struct android_app where you get the AInputEvents:

if (AInputEvent_getType(event) == AINPUT_EVENT_TYPE_KEY)
{
lint32_t key_val = AKeyEvent_getKeyCode(event);
fprintf("Received key event: %d\n", key_val);

if((key_val >= AKEYCODE_A && key_val <= AKEYCODE_Z))
{
    fprintf("Got a letter");
}
return 0;
}

You can also get access to other "hardware" buttons here by checking against key codes such as AKEYCODE_BACK or AKEYCODE_VOLUME_UP.