Question

I’m making a game using AndEngine which uses the soft keyboard of the device.

I’m NOT using EditText, but rather my own. I’m trying to detect presses on the soft keyboard,
I’ve already succeeded in showing and hiding the keyboard over the AndEngine scene.

My activity implements the OnKeyboardActionListener, which I read is used as a soft-keyboard listener, but I’m not sure how to register the keyboard with this class (the activity).
Obviously, at the moment, the code inside onPress() is useless..

I couldn’t find any examples, most of them refers to EditText, which I’m not using..
Is it possible?
Maybe a service or something?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT:

I’m trying to create my own keyboard using KeyboardView and a custom Keyboard,
This way I could do

KeyboardView kbView = new KeyboardView(this,null);
kbView.setKeyboard(new Keyboard(this, R.xml.keyboard);
kbView.setOnKeyboardActionListener(new OnKeyboardActionListener() {
    ....
}

Has anyone done this? works, doesn’t?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I ended up creating my own Keyboard and KeyboardView`, then I used this code

CustomKeyboardView kbView = (CustomKeyboardView) findViewById(R.id.keyboard_view);
kbView.setKeyboard(new Keyboard(this, R.xml.myCustomKeyboard);
kbView.setOnKeyboardActionListener(new OnKeyboardActionListener() {
    @Override
    public void onPress(int primaryCode) {
        // A Key was pressed
    }
    ....
}

And created a KeyboardView in the xml layout

<pathToCustomKeyboardView.CustomKeyboardView
    android:id="@+id/keyboard_view"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:visibility="gone"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" />

CustomKeyboardView only extends KeyboardView, dunno why, but it works with the custom and not with the original

EDIT:
Also, The activity extends SimpleLayoutGameActivity, And then I selected the layout which contains the CustomKeyboardView