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I am trying to get the key pressed on soft keyboard but am unable to do so. Currently i am using the following 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);

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It is catching key events for the hardware keyboard but not for the virtual one. Can someone help me out

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From the Android Official Page

Note: When handling keyboard events with the KeyEvent class and related APIs, you should expect that such keyboard events come only from a hardware keyboard. You should never rely on receiving key events for any key on a soft input method (an on-screen keyboard).

So you should use TextWatcher Interface to observe the characters pressed on the SoftKeyboard, example:

myEditText.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) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub } @Override public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub } });
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This has been useful solution, thump up.
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This should be your solution:

@Override public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) { if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK && event.getRepeatCount() == 1) { finish(); return true; } return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event); }
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