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Android: Remove Enter Key from softkeyboard


In my login form when user clicks on an EditText and presses the enter key, this inserts a new line, therefore increasing the EditText's size. Next moment, it returns to its previous place and prints a dot in the password field (which is the next field).

I want to remove this enter key from the softkeyboard. Is it possible?


Solution

  • I am afraid you can't do this. But one thing is you can handle the softkeyboard keyevents like this,

    edittext.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener() {
    
            public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
    
    
                    if (event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN
                            && event.getKeyCode() ==       KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER) {
                        Log.i("event", "captured");
    
                        return false;
                    } 
                    else if(event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN
                            && event.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK){
                        Log.i("Back event Trigered","Back event");
    
                    }
    
                }
    
                }
                return false;
            }
        });
    

    Apart from this, you have to note that providing the attribute android:singleLine=true will make your edittext from growing in size when the soft keyborad ENTER is pressed