I have a WebView which has a form containing 10 editboxes. When I type in an editbox I find that in the softkey keyboard Go button is visible which eventually takes me to the next page. But I want Next button which should take me to the next editbox, not to the next page. So, how to change the softkey keyboard "Go" button to "Next" in Android?
In the xml, specifiy for your editboxes the attribute android:imeOptions="actionNext" .
The next button will bring the user into the next field that accept input.
Take a look at http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/SoftKeyboard/index.html which may help you.
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Phonegap input type text show Go button on soft keyboard, I have multiple text boxes so want Next button on keyboard so user can move easily and on last input want Go so user can press to submit form.
And on Android kitkatt keyboard top bar also not displaying Next|Prev buttons.
Having a "Next" button instead of "Go" for input type="text" would not be possible with Android as of now.
Android will always display "Go" button for form input fields irrespective of the position of the field you are at in the form. "Go" is basically reflecting the same behavior as of an "Enter" button on a normal browser & keyboard.
There are two possible hacks to come closer to what you need (still won't change "Go" to "Next" but will help "Go" act as "Next") -
Hack 1 - Hijack Enter key event & move focus to next fields
Like I mentioned the "Go" key replicates the "Enter" key, you can capture the enter key event using JavaScript & make it move focus to next fields in form until its your last field. Once last field reaches you can allow it to act as enter. So basically Go will keep moving focus to next fields until its your last field & then will submit the form.
I have answered a solution to a similar requirement here - How to trigger a Tab when user presses Enter, you can try implementing the same in your app.
DEMO LINK - http://codepen.io/nitishdhar/pen/Gxbhm
Hack 2 - Force form validation & move focus to next invalid fields
If you want to prevent users from submitting the form, you can put required validations on the form using java-script & if some field is not filled, upon pressing "Go" the focus of the cursor can be brought to the next "not filled" field. So in a way giving the impression of - "Pressing Go & moving to next field to be filled"
Try this plugin - http://jqueryvalidation.org/ this behaves in the way explained i.e moves focus to the next required or invalid field.
Also I think some android versions show some tab key on the keyboard to move between fields, buts its not Next.
All the best.
I have an edittext which takes numbers, when I click on it keyboard(numeric) shows up. After puting my values in it I press that next button which then open ups another keyboard(alphabet)which bascially I don't want and now on pressing done this time dismiss the keyboard. I want to skip the alphabet keyboard. I have even tried
if(actionId==EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_NEXT){
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);}
Any sugesstion
add android:imeOptions="actionDone" to the EditText tag in your XML layout.
When a standard EditText has focus the softkeyboard shows a "Next" button to move the the next field (It does on my Nexus 4 at least) but if I have an EditText with inputType="numberDecimal" the keyboard instad shows a "return" icon. Is there anyway to force the keyboard to always show the "Next" button?
Just to clarify, I want the "Next" button available to move focus to the next available EditText on the screen once user input is completed for the particular field.
Example with "Next" button;
Example without "Next" button;
Have you added
android:imeOptions="actionNext"
in your EditText.
For those, If above not working while using in number mode you can still use :
android:nextFocusDown="#+id/parentedit"
where parentedit is the ID of the next EditText to be focused.
I have a webform that is integrated into a native app via a webview. But now when the user sets the focus on the first textbox of the form, I see a Go button on the soft keyboard. Instead, I'd like to have Next button, clicking on which would take me to the next input control. And the last input control alone should have Go button on keyboard. How do I achieve this? (Note: Please note that I want this on a web form. I've already found material on how to do this on a native form.)
Please go to take a look, is that what you are looking for?
How to change the Android softkey keyboard "Go" button to "Next"
Is there any way out for mapping the Done button to the button on the screen in Android. What I want is that I have one login screen user enters username and presses the next button on the soft keyboard which brings the focus on password field. AFter entering password when the user presses done button then the action which is performed on login button should be called.
Let me know if this is possible.
In your layout file, you can specify the focus order using attributes like nextFocusDown. If you have the focus order configured properly, hitting next should automatically take you to the next focusable element.
You can also add a KeyListener to the edit text to listen for the next key and set the focus accordingly.