Android: How to Make Keyboard Enter Button Say "Search" and Handle Its Click

Android: how to make keyboard enter button say Search and handle its click?

In the layout set your input method options to search.

<EditText
    android:imeOptions="actionSearch" 
    android:inputType="text" />

In the java add the editor action listener.

editText.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
        if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_SEARCH) {
            performSearch();
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
});

Trying to make the soft keyboard enter button say search or display search magnifying glass and handle its click for an EditText

Remove

android:digits="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_"

from your EditText and it will fix your problem.

The conflict was due to the android:digits is set. In this situation android:inputType is set to numeric by default disregarding what you entered there(android:inputType="text|textNoSuggestions|textVisiblePassword") in your xml, thus making your android:imeOptions="actionSearch" irrelevant.

Hope it helps.

Handling physical keyboard's Enter key in SearchView

That's how I've handled it:

//Grab de EditText from the SearchView
EditText editText = (EditText) viewHolder.mTextSearch
    .findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_src_text);
editText.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int keyAction, KeyEvent keyEvent) {
        if (
            //Soft keyboard search
                keyAction == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_SEARCH ||
                        //Physical keyboard enter key
                        (keyEvent != null && KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER == keyEvent.getKeyCode()
                                && keyEvent.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN)) {
            new SearchForEquipmentTask(false, viewHolder.mTextSearch
                .getQuery().toString()).execute();
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
});

Thanks for your help!

See also:

• Grab the EditText element from a SearchView
• Android: how to make keyboard enter button say "Search" and handle its click?

Handling Enter and search key on the keyboard

I had to create two diffrent keyboard xml one with enter button and another with backspace. I have to type in edittext keyboard with backspace button apear and when type in search bar then keyboard with enter button apear.

Android keyboard Go button to Search

Try
myEditText.setImeActionLabel("Search",EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_UNSPECIFIED). IME_ACTION_UNSPECIFIED allows you to put whatever text you want in the button.

Handle Enter button soft keyboard

You can use

     android:imeActionLabel="your text here"
     android:imeOptions="actionNext"

for next imeoption

and

    android:imeActionLabel="your text here"
    android:imeOptions="actionSend"

for the done button

How to set edittext to show search button or enter button on keyboard?

Use the code to edit EditText attribute

<EditText android:imeOptions="actionSearch" />

Then do this in your java code:

editText.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
        if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_SEARCH) {
            performSearch();
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
});

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