I m attempting to replicate on android an iphone app my company had developed externally.
My need is simple but it seems hard to achieve under android. I have three numeric edittext inputs. Each should take only decimal numeric values. So numbers 0-9 and "." or ",". On the iphone this was achieved by a slide in calculator style keypad with one of the buttons a "GO" button that when pressed hides the keypad and, if all the inputs have valid values triggers a calculation that displays values on the screen.
I ve tried the android phone input type and this is very close to what I want but I have no idea how to replicate the go button. I have put a calculate button on the main interface itself but I can t get the keyboard to go again once it is opened.
So can I either
A. Modify the layout of the phone keypad in some way to change one of the buttons to be GO (Calculate) and intercept the keypress or
B. Do I have to create my own keypad in which case how do I go about sliding it in and out over the top of the current view?
thanks guys