Device buttons

Android
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Hi. I'm really liking Juce so far; nice clean API, great docs. Awesome!

 

Is there any way to have Juce respond to Android device buttons - e.g. Back, Menu? I've searched a few times, but haven't found anything so far. Possibly I'm just using the wrong keywords :)

 

Any help greatly appreciated!

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I'm totally new to Android dev, but perhaps KeyPressed() might return somthing useful? Otherwise you'll probably need to do this on the JAVA side.

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This has been on my to-do-list.. I was rather hoping that someone using android would give me a helpful snippet that points me in the right direction... :)

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Thanks guys.

 

I'll try Rory's suggestion, and see if I get anything from keyPressed. That would certainly be a sensible way for the device to report it, but I suspect Android might not be that sensible :) Otherwise I'll take a look around the Android docs and post here again if I find anything useful. If it does involve Java, my motivation to get it working may diminish somewhat ;)

 

Thanks again

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I hear you. I'm currently pirouetting around JAVA obstacles like Nijinsky. I fear I've run out of stage however. Crash, thump, wallop. 

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Btw, have you looked at this:

http://www.juce.com/forum/topic/android-dpi-bug?page=1

Might be of some help to you?

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Fantastic, thanks Rory. I'll take a look.

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How is the device buttons comming along? It's been a year so it might be done already for what I know.

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Don't think we've got anything new, but Android is a big priority for us now, so I'll make sure this is in our backlog!

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For support the back button of Android, my nasty solution is:

bool ComponentForSomething::keyPressed (const KeyPress& key)
{
    if (key == KeyPress::escapeKey)
    {
        // ... make it disvisible, show pervious component,
        // deliver the escapeKey to parent component or something else

        return true;
    }
    return Component::keyPressed (key);
}
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I've been wondering how to get the back button working for Android... will try your escape key method, thanks

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Is it that easy? Thank you, the back button is kind of important.

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Glad to hear about the Android future, thanks

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As Jules already said, this is in our backlog and we will implement it as soon as we have time.

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How is the current status on this?

In our app it is a huge issue unfortunately that if you type text into a text editor and press the back button that the keyboard reappears, as the text editor natively doesn’t lose focus. This wouldn’t be a problem at all if I could unfocus everything on pres of the back button. Unfortunately the back button is not handled by the keyPressed event in any way!

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Still nothing, I guess…

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I know this was 5 years ago, but I’m trying your method now and it doesn’t catch the back button on my Galaxy S10.

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Oh wow! Just found out that the back button is managed in the ApplicationBase class

virtual bool backButtonPressed()
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Another one on this bumpy road here:
I’d like to intercept volume rocker events.
While nothing(!) happens on android, it (sort of) works on windows (surface pro 7):
keyPressed() gets called, but the keyCode is always 0, while it should be 174(0xAE) or 175(0xAF).

I’m not into keycodes, unicode and implementation layers, but could it be a reason there is no Keypress::volumeUpKey implemented (yet)?
doKeyDown() (juce_win32_Windowing.cpp, line 3017) however runs into the switche’s default and tries translating it into unicode, but ToUnicode() obviously returns “0”
There are definitions for play, stop etc. in juce_keyPress.h though, and volume keys are listed at least in winUser.h…

Puhh, much info, hope it doesn’t confuse…
Maybe somebody can point me to the right direction?
Thanks!!

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I have an FR for just this. Voting on it would be better than digging up old threads! :smiley:

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