Android EditText: Done instead of Enter or Word Wrap instead of Multi Line

I suggest to read this article

http://savagelook.com/blog/android/android-quick-tip-edittext-with-done-button-that-closes-the-keyboard

really good example

XML:

<EditText     android:id="@+id/edittext_done"    android:layout_width="fill_parent"    android:layout_height="wrap_content"    android:hint="Enter some text"    android:imeOptions="actionDone"    />

Custom Action Class:

class DoneOnEditorActionListener implements OnEditorActionListener {    @Override    public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {        if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE) {            InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)v.getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), 0);            return true;          }        return false;    }}

Activity Class:

public class SampleActivity extends Activity {        @Override    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);        setContentView(R.layout.sample_activity_layout); // sample_activity_layout contains our target EditText, target_edittext         EditText targetEditText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.target_edittext);         targetEditText.setOnEditorActionListener(new DoneOnEditorActionListener());         // The rest of the onCreate() code   }}

android:inputType="textEmailAddress|textEmailSubject"

You need to set the input type as email address or email subject. Either one will give you your desired result. shouldAdvanceFocusOnEnter() is a private method in TextView which determines whether to enter a new line or move focus to next field.

If you're using android:inputType="textMultiLine|..." in your XML, or using the corresponding Java code:

editField.setInputType(    InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT | InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_MULTI_LINE);

then the only solution to show a ✔︎ Done or 🔍 Search button is to follow the answers here:

Multiline EditText with Done SoftInput Action Label on 2.3

So you should extend EditText and override onCreateInputConnection() to manually set the IME_ACTION_xx flags; something like this...

@Overridepublic InputConnection onCreateInputConnection(EditorInfo outAttrs) {    InputConnection connection = super.onCreateInputConnection(outAttrs);    int imeActions = outAttrs.imeOptions&EditorInfo.IME_MASK_ACTION;    if ((imeActions & EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE) != 0) {        // clear the existing action        outAttrs.imeOptions ^= imeActions;        // set the DONE action        outAttrs.imeOptions |= EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE;    }    if ((outAttrs.imeOptions & EditorInfo.IME_FLAG_NO_ENTER_ACTION) != 0) {        outAttrs.imeOptions &= ~EditorInfo.IME_FLAG_NO_ENTER_ACTION;    }    return connection;}

This is because whenever you enable the "textMultiLine" option, it ignores any setting of android:imeOptions="actionDone" or android:imeActionLabel="actionDone", which is very strange and confusing.