Handle keyboard navigation arrows

Question

On a Samsung Tablet, we have the following keyboard:

When a clic occurred on the right bottom arrows, in the view pager, fragment is changed. I want to intercept this event or remove the arrows from the keyboard. Is it possible ?

I tried to intercept keyevent with onKeyUp and onKeyDown methods, but it's not working:

if (event.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_RIGHT || event.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_LEFT) {
  return true;
}

My problem is the same as here

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 26 '17 at 14:04

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Try to use dispatchKeyEvent(KeyEvent event):

 @Override 
 public boolean dispatchKeyEvent(KeyEvent event) {

     Log.i("key pressed ", String.valueOf(event.getKeyCode()));
     if(event.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.KEY_A /*select required keycode*/ ){
        // perform task
     }
     return super.dispatchKeyEvent(event); 
}

edited Sep 26 '17 at 14:04

louis amoros

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answered Sep 26 '17 at 13:28

Nouman Ch

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it is returning you a keyCode check the keycode for navigation_next button. – Nouman Ch Sep 26 '17 at 13:29
After 1 day with this problem you saved my day! Thank you a lot! – Marta Tenés Jun 28 '18 at 14:47

Handle keyboard navigation arrows

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