Consume key events in Android

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1

How do I consume key events in Android. I have exported my game to a “Google Android Project” and I have tried both overriding the dispatchKeyEvent() and onGenericMotionEvent, like this:

	// For some reason the multiple keyevent type is not supported by the ndk.
	// Force event injection by overriding dispatchKeyEvent().
	@Override public boolean dispatchKeyEvent(KeyEvent event)
	{
		Log.d(String.valueOf(event.getDeviceId()), "Control");
		Toast.makeText(this, String.valueOf(event.getDeviceId()), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
	
		if (event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_MULTIPLE)
			return mUnityPlayer.injectEvent(event);
		return super.dispatchKeyEvent(event);
	}

	@Override
	public boolean onGenericMotionEvent(MotionEvent event) 
	{ 
		Log.d(String.valueOf(event.getDeviceId()), "Control");
		Toast.makeText(this, String.valueOf(event.getDeviceId()), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
		return true;
	}

I have also tried to attach KeyListener handlers directly to the UnityPlayer object, like this:

		mUnityPlayer = new UnityPlayer(this);
		mUnityPlayer.setOnKeyListener(new View.OnKeyListener()
		{
			
			@Override
			public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event)
			{
				Log.d(String.valueOf(event.getDeviceId()), "Control");
				Toast.makeText(UnityPlayerNativeActivity.this, String.valueOf(event.getDeviceId()), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
				return true;
			}
		}
		);

But in both cases, the Java code is not triggering. Any ideas why??

2

So I’m able to get the values of Jostick AXIS by putting the following under the Unity activity in the manifest. This now triggers onGenericMotionEvent(), but not dispatchKeyEvent().

 <meta-data
      android:name="unityplayer.ForwardNativeEventsToDalvik"
      android:value="true" />

I’m assuming this is a bug in (or a ‘feature of’) unity, so have posted a bug report on the forum…