Android - How to convert KeyEvent KeyCode to Char? [duplicate]

Question

I want to get the char value of the KeyCode Event when pressing an Android keyboard.

public void KeyCodeEventAsChar(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {

  char pressedKey;

  // TODO: convert key Code Event into char

  syslog.d ("TEST", "The pressed key in Android keyboard was char: " + pressedKey);

}

Does anyone has a clue how to do this?!

UPDATE:

I don't want hardcoded text! I want to convert it to correspondent char!

UPDATE 2:

I need also to dead chars such as: à, á, ò, ó, etc...

ANSWER FOUND:

// TODO: convert key Code Event into char
char pressedKey = (char) event.getUnicodeChar();

IMPORTANT NOTE: char has only 1 byte length, so it will not support several chars

Answer 1

> I had already answered updating the question

// TODO: convert key Code Event into char
char pressedKey = (char) event.getUnicodeChar();

IMPORTANT NOTE: char has only 1 byte length, so it will not support several chars

Hope it help you somehow

Answer 2

You can use KeyEvent.getDisplayLabel() to get the primary character for the key. In other words, the label that is physically printed on it.

Answer 3

In order to test the Answer Found you can do this:

@Override
public boolean onKeyUp(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {

    char pressedKey = (char) event.getUnicodeChar();

    Log.d("onKeyUp is: ", Character.toString(pressedKey));


    return super.onKeyUp(keyCode, event);

}

And the letter that you pressed should appear in the logcat

Answer 4

You have to check which key is getting pressed like this

if(keyCode  == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER){

syslog.d ("TEST", "The pressed key in Android keyboard was Enter" );
}

Here is the link where you find all the KeyEvents

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html