EditText multiline with "next view button" instead of "new line button"

Question

Goal is to use multiline EditText with android:inputType="textMultiLine" and with "next view button" such as android:inputType="text" (see picture 2).

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/addAffirmationContent"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:inputType="textMultiLine"
    android:maxLength="255"
    android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi" />

I tried many combinations with: android:inputType, singleLine, nextFocusDown, nextFocusUp, nextFocusLeft, nextFocusRight, nextFocusForward, imeOptions, lines, but android:inputType="textMultiLine" always forces new line button.

Tested on Nexus 5 Android 7.

Picture 1.: new line button:

Picture 2.: next view button:

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 22 '18 at 16:52

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I think what you are looking for is the same as in this answer:

In code:

editText.setImeOptions(EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_NEXT);
editText.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);

and in xml:

android:inputType="textMultiLine"

answered Feb 22 '18 at 16:52

MikeL

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That's the correct answer! The solution did the trick. The only thing I wouder is why this combination gives us that behaviour? In fact we set inputType in code as a text reassigning inputType of xml which is textMultilane and in the end it's still acts as multiline but with action option. Could someone tell me what is exactly happening? – splekhanov Jul 30 '23 at 10:31

Rainmaker · Answer 2 · 2018-02-21T19:08:05.783

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These three lines in combination should replace your "enter" with "next"

<EditText 
    android:inputType="text"
    android:maxLines="1"
    android:imeOptions="actionNext" />

Android have a lot of"android:imeOptions" to specify the keyboard action button

android:imeOptions="actionGo"
android:imeOptions="actionDone"
android:imeOptions="actionNext"
android:imeOptions="actionPrevious"
android:imeOptions="actionSend"

and there are even more

edited Feb 21 '18 at 19:08

answered Feb 21 '18 at 15:25

Rainmaker

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I do not want block Enter. I want to see and use next view button (see picture 2) instead of Enter button. – t0m Feb 21 '18 at 18:45
@t0m i'm sorry didn't get it right, now I see, I managed to do it in one of my projects with this combination (see edited code), I understand that you tried some combinations but maybe you didn't try this – Rainmaker Feb 21 '18 at 19:09
This is not multiline `EditText`. – t0m Feb 22 '18 at 08:48

EditText multiline with "next view button" instead of "new line button"

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