Use ENTER key on softkeyboard instead of clicking button

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Hello I ve got a searched EditText and search Button  When I type the searched text  I d like to use ENTER key on softkeyboard instead of search Button to activate search function   Thanks for help in advance

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Most updated way to achieve this is   Add this to your EditText in XML   android imeOptions  actionSearch    Then in your Activity Fragment   EditText setOnEditorActionListener      actionId    - gt      if  actionId    EditorInfo IME ACTION SEARCH               Do what you want here         return setOnEditorActionListener true           return setOnEditorActionListener false

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may be you could add a attribute to your EditText like this   android imeOptions  actionSearch

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To avoid the focus advancing to the next editable field  if you have one  you might want to ignore the key-down events  but handle key-up events  I also prefer to filter first on the keyCode  assuming that it would be marginally more efficient  By the way  remember that returning true means that you have handled the event  so no other listener will  Anyway  here is my version   ETFind setOnKeyListener new OnKeyListener         public boolean onKey View v  int keyCode  KeyEvent event                if  keyCode     KeyEvent KEYCODE DPAD CENTER            keyCode     KeyEvent KEYCODE ENTER                 if  event getAction      KeyEvent ACTION DOWN                       do nothing yet               else if  event getAction      KeyEvent ACTION UP                            findForward                           is there any other option here                     Regardless of what we did above                 we do not want to propagate the Enter key up                since it was our task to handle it              return true             else                  it is not an Enter key - let others handle the event             return false

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lt 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    gt    You can then listen for presses on the action button by defining a TextView OnEditorActionListener for the EditText element  In your listener  respond to the appropriate IME action ID defined in the EditorInfo class  such as IME ACTION SEND  For example   EditText editText    EditText  findViewById R id search   editText setOnEditorActionListener new OnEditorActionListener          Override     public boolean onEditorAction TextView v  int actionId  KeyEvent event            boolean handled   false          if  actionId    EditorInfo IME ACTION SEND                sendMessage                handled   true                    return handled              Source  https   developer android com training keyboard-input style html

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add an attribute to the EditText like  android imeOptions  actionSearch     this is the best way to do the function   and the imeOptions also have some other values like  go    next   done  etc

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We can also use Kotlin lambda  editText setOnKeyListener      keyCode  keyEvent - gt          if  keyEvent action    KeyEvent ACTION DOWN  amp  amp  keyCode    KeyEvent KEYCODE ENTER                Log d  Android view component    Enter button was pressed               return setOnKeyListener true                   return setOnKeyListener false

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You do it by setting a OnKeyListener on your EditText   Here is a sample from my own code  I have an EditText named addCourseText  which will call the function addCourseFromTextBox when either the enter key or the d-pad is clicked   addCourseText    EditText  findViewById R id clEtAddCourse   addCourseText setOnKeyListener new OnKeyListener         public boolean onKey View v  int keyCode  KeyEvent event                if  event getAction      KeyEvent ACTION DOWN                        switch  keyCode                                case KeyEvent KEYCODE DPAD CENTER                  case KeyEvent KEYCODE ENTER                      addCourseFromTextBox                        return true                  default                      break                                  return false

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this is a sample of one of my app how i handle         searching for the Edit Text in the view         final EditText myEditText   EditText view findViewById R id myEditText           myEditText setOnKeyListener new View OnKeyListener                 public boolean onKey View v  int keyCode  KeyEvent event                     if  event getAction      KeyEvent ACTION DOWN                        if   keyCode    KeyEvent KEYCODE DPAD CENTER                                   keyCode    KeyEvent KEYCODE ENTER                                       do something                                   true because you handle the event                                 return true                                                          return false

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