Stop keyboard from closing when Enter is pressed in EditText?

Question

I have an EditText which has the singleLine attribute set to true. When I press Enter on the keyboard, the keyboard is hidden. Is it possible to prevent this?

Answer 1

I've been using OnKeyListener which caused this problem. Switching to OnEditorActionListener stops the Keyboard from closing when pressing Enter and allows me to have full control of it.

editText.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
            if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_NEXT || actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE) {
                //DO THINGS HERE
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }
    });

Answer 2

this should help you

 youredittext.setOnEditorActionListener(new OnEditorActionListener() {

    @Override
    public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
         if ( (event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN  ) &&
             (keyCode           == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER)   )
        {               
           // hide virtual keyboard
           InputMethodManager imm = 
              (InputMethodManager)getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
           imm.showSoftInputFromInputMethod(edittext.getWindowToken(), 0);
           return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
});

when you press the enter key the inputMethodManager will show the keyboard, if needed.

hope this will solve your problem :)

edit: if this will not work try use the event.getKeyCode() in the secend part of the if statment edit II: sorry, i read it wrong, i fixed it now try this one.