I am trying to make an edittext into both a search bar and address bar. Also I am not sure how to allow the user hit enter on their keyboard to initiate the search instead of manually touching the go button.
It sounds like you want to use IME actions for your case to allow the user to have a sort of "Go" button which is activated by the enter key. This page on the official Android guide should help you: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/controls/text.html#Actions
To detect a URL, use the built in Java class to do it. See here: How to detect the presence of URL in a string
Using those two methods, simply check if the entered text is a URL. If it is, then use it, otherwise you call your search method passing in the entered text.
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I know that you can specify a short message input type in order to turn the enter key of the keyboard into an emoji button and pressing it will show up the emoji list but what i want to do is open up the emoji list programatically from a button. Is this possible?
There is no functionality to add tabs to any generic keyboard. Certain keyboards may support it, but it isn't a common feature. You could write your own fully custom keyboard, but that's a lot of work and will piss off many users.
Also, I'm not sure what you mean about by like in hangouts. I use hangouts- it doesn't do anything odd with my keyboard. It stays as Swype, there's no special emoji tab. It may be a feature of your favorite keyboard based on the input type (I assume both use input type textShortMessage). But it isn't a generic feature.
See Link Android Keyboard with Emoji
Thanks and enjoy...
I have a WebView that has a textfield in it, in which the user enters some text. On a button press I want to extract this text from the WebView and store it in a String so that I can use it later in some other native code.
Note: This text entry must be done in a WebView, and cannot be moved to an EditText.
You need to get access to the function behind the button (ie the webview you're accessing has to provide it)
Basically, this post will help you accomplish what you're looking for :
https://stackoverflow.com/a/9581016/4232337
Is there a way to get an array of the suggestions strings which are shown when you typing in EditText? The problem is I have an EditText and in case of user use "Show Suggestions" option the result of the string from this EditText is different in case of user pressed, lets say UI button (this is a Button from the layout), and a return button at the soft keyboard. In first case user gets an exact string but in second - it gets corrected (suggested) string even user do NOT select this suggestion. How to solve this problem? How to get from EditText "suggested" string? Do I need to implement my own IME?
Maybe this can help you ? Hello Auto Complete
Or if you want to write one on your own.. Writing your own autocompleteview
Are you trying to disable suggestions or to modify them?
If you want to disable them completely, check this out:
How to disable displaying "suggestions" on the Soft Keyboard
In Google Maps, when you click the search box the real search comes up. The search box is just an imageview illusion with an onclicklistener
similarly, if you press the search button on the mobile device, the search box comes up.
I need to implement similar behavior, when the user clicks an image that is over the map (in a relativelayout), the search box for that mapview comes up.
how would I call the mapview's search feature??? I was thinking of just simulating a search button press but I dont even know what this function's name is.
Thanks for the insight!
The function you are looking for is onSearchRequested(). Just make a call on your onClickListener. Complete guide to search implementation can be found here.
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/search/index.html
Does anyone of you friendly coders know how to change the text on the return key of the android keyboard. I am catching the return event of an EditText element to start an action. So I would like to show the user, that he can start the action with that key. Some applications do that. E.g. they replace the key with a search symbol.
I am also wondering why apps always have an additional button aside the text field. Clearly, this takes away screen space. But it may be necessary for some purpose I am not aware off. The one problem I could imagine is task switching. After switching back, the user would have to call the keyboard before he could start the action. The other is a hardware keyboard, but anyone will assume that the return key will start the action.
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There are some ways to change the behaviour of the return button on your software keyboard. If you want to have the search Icon on your keyboard you have to add android:imeOptions="actionSearch" to your EditText View. There are some other actions that you can set for an overview over the available options have a look at the documentation of the TextView.
I would guess the reason that there are buttons next to many textfields to trigger the action is because users are used to it and would be a little bit at loss if the button is missing especially users with a hardware keyboard or if the software keyboard disappeared. One additional problem is that the return key is also used to create line breaks this means that if you want to have a multi line text field you cant use the return key to start an action.
If you want, you can hide the additional button beside the text area by adding the attribute
android:imeOptions="flagNoAccessoryAction" to your TextView or add it in code using
myTextView.setImeOptions(EditorInfo.IME_MASK_ACTION & EditorInfo.IME_FLAG_NO_ACCESSORY_ACTION);.
This is generally advised against, however, because of the user not being able to see what action will be performed when, say, the return key is pressed, or not being able to perform an action at all.
More info in this blog post: http://android-developers.blogspot.dk/2009/04/updating-applications-for-on-screen.html.