Question

I’d like for my enter key to complete an action without hiding the keyboard afterwards. Currently every time I enter something and press the enter button the EditText input is cleared to accept the next input, but as the keyboard disappears I have to click the EditText again so that the keyboard would appear again…

Right now this is on my layout:

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/etCommand"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:hint="@string/commandHint"
    android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"
    android:imeOptions="actionSend" >
</EditText>

And the code:

etCommand = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etCommand);
etCommand.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
        if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_SEND) {
            sendCommand();
        }
        return false;
    }
});

EDIT

As swayam suggested I had to return true inside onEditorAction so that the OS would think the action was handled and leave it alone.

Answer 1

Have a go at this code snippet :

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED,0);