Setting a return key on an Android keyboard

Question

Do any of your friendly coders know how to change text to a return key on an Android keyboard. I fire the return event of the EditText element to start the action. Therefore, I would like to show the user that he can start the action with this key. Some applications do this. For instance. they replace the key with the search character.

I am also wondering why applications always have an extra button away from the text field. Clearly this takes up screen space. But this may be necessary for some purpose that I do not know about. The only problem I could imagine was task switching. After switching back, the user will have to call up the keyboard before he can begin the action. The other is a hardware keyboard, but someone will assume that a return key will trigger an action.

Rg

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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: http://android-developers.blogspot.dk/2009/04/updating-applications-for-on-screen.html.