Questions tagged [android-hardware-keyboard]
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React Native TextInput: no newline with hardware keyboard Enter key
We have a React Native TextInput component in our app. Using the virtual keyboard, pressing enter creates a new line. If we use a hardware keyboard (attached to an Android 6 tablet using an USB OTG adapter), the Enter key (the large one in the…

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Avoiding Application Restart when Hardware Keyboard Opens
I am currently working on a multi-threaded game application for the Android platform... so far so good... I just got over a bug in my application which caused it to restart on orientation change (fixed by designating a specific orientation depending…

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Android: Videoview media controller keys are not shown as focused when using D-pad
I am using a videoview to play videos in full screen. I have a hardware keyboard connected to my Android device.
Now when I press 'enter' key while a video is being played in full screen, I get a media
controls at the bottom.
By default, the focus…

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Android : How to prevent softkeyboard hidden when hardwarekeyboard input
I created EditText and applied it to the showSoftInput of InputMethodManager.
When I enter a physical key, the keyboard is automatically hidden.
I want to prevent the keyboard from automatically being hidden.
I've tried the method below.
1. use…

Joon
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Hide soft keyboard when an EditText field receives focus
I am currently developing an enterprise Android application,
which is deployed on devices that have a hardware keyboard.
Most of the EditText fields require numerical input, so naturally
it is much more convenient and faster to enter the data via…

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Can I programmatically disable/enable the physical keyboard?
I want to enable the soft keyboard when a scanner is plugged into the device. In order to do this I need to disable the hardware keyboard
Is there a way to disable/enable the use of hardware keyboard in Android 3.0+ programmatically?

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Detect input from software or hardware keyboard
I'm working in an Android app that must use a RFID tag reader. I'm using this reader as an extra device connected in my microUSB with an OTG wire. Android is detecting this device as an input keyboard. I would like to know if I can programatically…

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How to implement the following in flutter: When Hardware Key Pressed > Do Something; when Released > Stop Doing Something
I'm trying to create a Flutter note-taking app for myself which will enable me to record and organise my voice notes.
I want the functionality to be such:
Screen is Off; When I long press the volume down button (or another hardware button) >> App…

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Can't detect key press with hardware keyboard on android app (Kotlin)
I am creating a simple application for my android tv box, which uses a webview object to show some streaming urls and choose beetween them with PGup and PGdown of a remote control (an hardware keyboard).
I am overriding method onKeyUp, but…

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Tell Android to treat physical enter key the same as the on-screen "Search" key?
I set android:imeOptions="actionSearch" on an EditText. I was testing on the emulator, and pressing the physical enter key did not work as I expected. I thought it would have the same effect as clicking the Search button on the on-screen IME, but it…

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Register hardware keyboard shortcuts in Android's help menu
Android supports external hardware keyboards as input, which may send keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Ctrl+A) in which there are some ways to program my app to accept shortcuts from external keyboards (e.g. like this: Custom keyboard shortcuts).
I came…

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android : Physical keyboard language switch and mouse clicks do not work in EditText
Physical keyboard language switch and mouse clicks do not work in EditText.
I have created EditText dynamically as shown below.
EditText box = new EditText(this);
box.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
@Override
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Joon
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Android soft input behavior for KEYBOARD_12KEY, KEYBOARD_QWERTY, and KEYBOARD_NOKEYS
I was wondering if anybody here knows in what scenarios will Android show the user an on-screen soft keyboard, and how Android takes into account the different types of hardware keyboards available (KEYBOARD_12KEY, KEYBOARD_QWERTY, and…

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Request fosuc in hamburger on key down events from hardware keyboard
When I press any key on my hardware keyboard hamburger icon took focus:
How I can prevent this?
UPDATED:
I have a fragment with toolbar:

Alexey Nikitin
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How to not show overflow menu in the touch a hardware key
I am using toolbar, add option item in OnCreateOptionsMenu() and set showAsAction="always" so, 3-dot overflow icon does not show. is good work,
but show overflow(popup) when i touch the hardware menu key.
I use a hardware key, for other function.…

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