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android editText multiline return to line not working with swiftkey

I have the following edit text
<EditText
android:id="#+id/txtMessage"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#android:color/transparent"
android:gravity="start"
android:inputType="text|textMultiLine"
android:minHeight="90dp"
android:singleLine="false"
android:textColor="#color/textColor" />
Every reference shows that the code is correct and in fact the text wraps to multiline. But the enter key doesn't go to the new line when i use swiftkey keyboard (Google keyboard works fine)
any idea of how to solve this issue ?
Thanks

Have you considered switching to the default keyboard. It might solve your issue.
See this answer Set EditText to be Multiline(Enter is carrige return) and not display suggestions for more details.

Android - Get auto suggest on top of keyboard for EditText?

I need edittext with auto suggestion turned on.
For this I am using following in xml :
<EditText
android:id="#+id/edt_description"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#null"
android:hint="#string/description_album_hint"
android:imeOptions="actionNext"
android:inputType="textCapSentences|textAutoCorrect|textAutoComplete"
android:maxLines="2"
android:minLines="2"
android:singleLine="false"
android:textColor="#color/black"
android:textColorHint="#color/hint_color_light_gray" />
Even if I add "textCapSentences|textAutoCorrect|textAutoComplete" as inputType still there are no suggestions.
Adding Screenshot (this is what I need to implement):
Please help me.
Thanks in advance.

For this purpose you need a subclass of EditText called AutoCompleteTextView. You can find an example here http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/controls/text.html#AutoComplete

If you want to get auto suggestions in top of your keypad, what ever you are following is correct. Additionally you can add android:autoText="true". The suggestion will show you all your previously entered words.
Else if you want to get suggestion for every letter you type, then you can use AutoCompleteTextView.
Here is the code, how you can use this.Ex - AutoCompleteTextView

Got it .....
just removing "textAutoComplete" from "textCapSentences|textAutoCorrect|textAutoComplete" worked for me.

Have Android EditText appear to be in focus

Would it be possible to have an edit text appear to be in focus but not not actually be in focus. I would like the bright blue underline on two or more of the edit texts in my UI but never have them in focus or have the blinking insertion point. I have tried android:focusable="false" but that makes it grayed out. I'v also tried out a number of other combination but can't seem to find one that works.

Try to use
setSelected(true);
I think it will help
Edit:
To summarize I think you cannot really setSelection on multiple edittext at the same time but you can customize your editext by giving them custom background using selectors so they will look like selected.
You can accomplish it by using these tools that allow quick resources generators.
http://romannurik.github.io/AndroidAssetStudio/

Try this:
<EditText ... >
<requestFocus />
</EditText>
Hope this helps.

Programatically you can "request focus" to your view:
myEditText.requestFocus();
or via xml:
<EditText>
<requestFocus />
</EditText>

Hyphen breaks the line into multi line

In a a custom list view, I have a textview showing name and emailId. When the name provided is something like A-TestThisString(testA#test.com), the length of displayed area exceeds,
In that case the string is broken at the place of hyphen like
A-
is shown in the list. This is causing lots of problems. I have found one link which talks about solution bellow
topic: "Android: How do i make nonbreakable block in TextView?"
but, I am not able to understand how to use it. Please suggest.

Thanks for your help. I found the answer. use the inputType as email or singleLine=True, it starts working fine.

I used android:inputType="date", no line breaks and hyphen is displayed nicely
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:maxLines="1"
android:text="2-3 4-5"
android:inputType="date"
android:textSize="25sp" />

Hint in Android

I tried to show a hint in the EditText of my form, but i can't see that hint that i have set in the XML Layout while my application gets deployed, but i can able see the hint in eclipse designer view, but while getting deployed the same hint suppose to appear is missing, i tried with all the possible ways still i could not get the hint in the EditText... This is one of the Edit Text layout that i have used..
<EditText android:id="#+id/SetTimerSec_EditText01"
android:layout_width="60sp"
android:layout_height="40sp"
android:singleLine="true"
android:layout_x="220sp"
android:layout_y="170sp"
android:hint="0"
android:inputType="phone"
android:textColorHint="#color/black"
android:gravity="center"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true" />
[link text][1]
Can anybody Help me..Please
Thanks in advance
[1]: http://imgur.com/PzomF.jpg
[ScreenShot of Designer View with hint displayed][1]

It seems like a SDK bug, or at least related to one.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7252
The hint shows up if you remove the following:
android:gravity="center"

add android:ellipsize="start" and your hint will show up and be centered!