softkeys

Reading some articles, told me that soft keys varies between devices. Some says -6 or -21 for left soft key and -7 or -22 for right soft key. Given this situation, is there any good wrapper or function or best practice to handle it properly? If not possible for ALL devices, what is the best way to support most devices? with minor or no hack at all? To give you a feel for the scope of the problem have a look at this table of keycodes. Omermuhammed's approach is a good one if you are able to vary the JAD content depending on the target handset, for example by looking at the user-agent header

In the above figure i want to listen for down arrow( i have marked it in red colour, the key one which is used to hide the keyboard). I have tried to get it action through menu options, viewconfiguration class etc. But it is not useful. Is there any method, listeners or any callback event to track this button. Please let me know your suggestions and thoughts. Any help in this regard is highly appreciable Thanks inAdvance In your activity, override this method: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#onBackPressed() If I am not you talking about this method public

I'm having troubles with layouts being too large on Devices with Soft-Key-Buttons on Android: Summing up, my question is why a layout, which is configured as "match_parent" has its View-bounds extended to the "real" bottom window bound, instead of just above the Soft-Key-Buttons? Now to my specific problem: While displaying a RelativeLayout (in a Fragment, if thats necessary to know) with a View layout_alignParentBottom="true" on any Device with Soft-Key-Buttons, the View is displayed "behind" the Soft-Key-Buttons. Image of the View on a Device without Soft-Key-Buttons (as it should be) Image

Is there a way in Android to get the size of the soft buttons bar and status bar togheter? or a way to go get the screen height without the height of both these bars? (they are not always the same, look at the nexus 7 for example) Adrian Cid Almaguer Height of the Status Bar The height of the status bar depends on the screen size, for example in a device with 240 X 320 screen size the status bar height is 20px , for a device with 320 X 480 screen size the status bar height is 25px , for a device with 480 x 800 the status bar height must be 38px so I recommend to use this script to get the