Friday, 6 September 2013

How to enable focusing and editing the DatePicker widget on Android device without touch events

How to enable focusing and editing the DatePicker widget on Android device
without touch events

I am developing an app for android device without touch screen, controlled
with the mouse, keyboard or remote.
I have a dialog with a DatePicker widget and can not focus or edit it with
remote or keyboard, only with the mouse.

The problem is that the mouse will not always be plugged in, so i have to
find a way to edit it with the remote/keyboard. The android i'm running is
JellyBean.
I have tried various different solutions, using an Activity with a
DatePicker widget, using the DatePickerDialog class, creating a custom
Dialog with a DatePicker widget. The only other solution that i thought of
i creating a subclass of DatePicker and overriding the keyboard handling
methods, but it's my last option, there surely is another way.
Thanks for your help in advance

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