Android Physical Keyboard Feedback (Keyclicks)

Question

The soft pop up keyboard makes a sound when a key is pressed. I would play a sound when a key is pressed on the physical keyboard that we have built into our android hardware. Any advice of how I can do this.

Answer 1

You can use View.OnKeyListener . It will be invoked only for the Hardware keyboard. Just set it up like this:

    editText.setOnKeyListener((v, keyCode, event) -> {
        editText.playSoundEffect(SoundEffectConstants.CLICK); // Or play sound in any other way
        return false;
    });

Pay attention to return false . Otherwise your input won't be passed to the view because by returning true you are saying to the framework that your listener handled input already.