Samsung Galaxy XCover/Active button

Question

the Galaxy S4/S5/S6 Active and the Galaxy XCover models have this extra hardware button. In the settings the user can choose which app the button should open when it is pressed.

I'm developing an app that is specifically targeted at the Galaxy XCover 3. When the user opens the app for the first time, I want to ask the user if they want to let the hardware button open my app.

I have tried to register a broadcastreceiver on the "Camera button" event, but this doesn't work.

Does anyone know how I could achieve this result?

Answer 1

I had the same problem and found a solution.

Use the code below to find the keycode.

@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
    super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
    System.out.println("keycode -->" +keyCode);
    System.out.println("Key event -->" + event );
    return false;
}

Then make a final int with the keycode.

final int ACTIVE_BUTTON = 1015;

And last write your onKeyDown event.

@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event){
    switch(keyCode){
        case ACTIVE_BUTTON:
            //your action here
            return true;
    }
}