Android setOnEditorActionListener() doesn't fire

Question

I'm trying to set a listener to EditText when enter button will be pressed.But it didn't fire at all. I tested this on LG Nexus 4 with Android 4.2.2. setOnEditorActionListener works on Amazon Kindle Fire with Android 2.3 and setImeActionLabel works nowhere! I also can't set text for Enter button.Here is code:

mEditText.setImeActionLabel("Reply", EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_UNSPECIFIED);
mEditText.setOnEditorActionListener(new OnEditorActionListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId,
                KeyEvent event) {
            Log.d("TEST RESPONSE", "Action ID = " + actionId + "KeyEvent = " + event);
            return true;
        }  
    });

What am I doing wrong? How can I fix this?

Answer 1

You can use TextWatcher.

    editText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {

        @Override
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
        }

        @Override
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
                int after) {
        }

        @Override
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
            if (s.charAt(s.length() - 1) == '\n') {
                  Log.d("TEST RESPONSE", "Enter was pressed");
            }
        }
    });

Answer 2

Make sure that you have an IME_ACTION set in the layout file:

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/search"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:hint="@string/search_hint"
    android:inputType="text"
    android:imeOptions="actionSend" />

For a full explanation, see http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/controls/text.html.

Answer 3

What worked for me is this,I have added this below line to EditText

android:imeOptions="actionSend"

this line makes keyboard which pops up when clicked on edit text has send button instead of search

in the setOnEditorActionListener you override following method looking for action send

@Override
    public boolean onEditorAction(TextView textView, int actionId, KeyEvent keyEvent) {
        if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_SEND) {
        //implement stuff here
          }
        }

Answer 4

In the xml file add tag android:inputType="text" to the EditText

Answer 5

I use the following code

<EditText
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@id/ic_magnify"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    android:textSize="15sp"
    android:textColor="#000"
    android:id="@+id/input_search"
    android:inputType="text"
    android:background="@null"
    android:hint="Enter Address, City or Zip Code"
    android:imeOptions="actionSearch"/>

mSearchText.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent keyEvent) {

                if(actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_SEARCH || actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE
                        || keyEvent.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN || keyEvent.getAction() == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER){

                        geoLocate();

                }

                return false;
            }
        });

Answer 6

You can try this to use the OnKeyListener

editText.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onKey(View v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
            Log.d("TEST RESPONSE", "Action ID = " + actionId + "KeyEvent = " + event);
            return false;
        }
    });

Answer 7

I got it, it works on Edittext in an Activity, but not in a Fragement.

<EditText
                android:id="@+id/mEditText"
                android:imeOptions="actionSearch"
                android:imeActionLabel="搜索"
                android:inputType="text"
                android:singleLine="true"
                android:textSize="18dp"
                android:paddingTop="5dp"
                android:paddingBottom="5dp"
                android:paddingLeft="3dp"
                android:paddingRight="3dp"
                android:textColor="@color/black"
                android:layout_marginTop="7dp"
                android:layout_marginBottom="7dp"
                android:shadowColor="#4b000000"
                android:shadowDy="1"
                android:shadowDx="1"
                android:shadowRadius="1"
                android:cursorVisible="true"
                android:textCursorDrawable="@null"
                android:gravity="center_vertical|left"
                android:background="@color/transparent"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                tools:ignore="UnusedAttribute">
            <requestFocus/>
        </EditText>


mEditText.setImeActionLabel("搜索", EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_SEARCH);
    mEditText.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
            if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_SEARCH) {
                MToastUtil.show("搜索");
            }
            return false;
        }
    });

Answer 8

make sure:

inputType = "text";

imeOptions = "actionSend";

Answer 9

After some little more searching - this was the solution for me (works also in a fragment):

Just remove the imeAction