I’m having trouble with this and, from the research I have done, I think it may be a reported bug in 2.1. I have a page with two edittext fields which are numeric. I can click on the first and the soft keyboard pops up … when I press ‘next’ the focus goes to the next edittext as required.
Now, I enter a number here and press ‘next’ and, although the soft keyboard says that next has been pressed, my call to set the focus to my own next button (which is actually hidden by the soft keyboard) doesn’t happen.
I have tried to close the keyboard in code but again, nothing works.
As always, any advice will be gratefully received.
I’m not sure if this is a bug or not… the Next option that appears in soft keyboard input should only set focus to the next view that is actually an editable field, therefore would not move to a button.
Devices that actually have hard keyboards and arrow buttons that move focus should work… but as far as I know this is normal behavior. The user would have to back-press to close the input and then operate your own next button.
Interestingly enough… if there is not an editable view coming next in the hierarchy… my soft input usually changes from “Next” to “Done” so I’m not sure why you’d even have a “Next” option that that point.