How to change the Button text with the android keyboard?

Question

I created a button in my xml (normal button) with text set to "0". I attached an OnClickListner to it, and I got the keyboard to show using this code:

public void Measure(View paramView) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED,0);
}

Now I want the text in the button to change when I write something using the popped up keyboard. I want to fill it with numbers - example 13.45.

I don't want to change the button to an editText.

Anyone got an idea how to do this? Can anyone help? Thanks in advance for all the replies.

Answer 1

Instead of using button use an edit text and change the background of the edittext to make it look like a button

Answer 2

try this please:

      final  Button mbutton=(Button)android.findViewById(R.id.m_button_id); 
         mbutton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { 
            @Override
            public void onClick(View arg0) {   
                mbutton.setText(12+"");
                //or mbutton.setText("12");
            }
         });

Answer 3

There is a way to do this through XML by specifying a button's android:inputType="text" like so

in MainActivity.java:

final Button editableButton = findViewById(R.id.editableButton);

in activity_main.xml:

<Button
 android:id="@+id/editableButton"
 android:layout_width="match_parent"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 android:inputType="text"
 android:text="Button1" />

I have not figured out how to do this by Java alone. Using

button.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT) does not work, even though it feels like it should =(