onKeyListener not working on virtual keyboard

You have done one mistake here.
it should return true,If you handled the event. If you want to allow the event to be handled by the next receiver, return false
You are always returning true

Note : inputtype mention in your edittext.

<EditText android:id="@+id/select_category" 
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="textCapSentences|textAutoCorrect" >



edittext.setOnEditorActionListener(new OnEditorActionListener() {

            @Override
            public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {

                if ((actionId & EditorInfo.IME_MASK_ACTION) == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE) {
                    //do something here.
                    return true;
                }
                return false;
            }
        });

Have you tried using the specific listener sub-class for that view?

I had a similar problem with an EditText. The code below worked:

private OnKeyListener keyListener = new EditText.OnKeyListener(){

    @Override
    public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
        EditText et = (EditText) v;
        Log.i("APPEVENT", "Key hit: "+ event);
        //...
        return false;
    }

};

But if I used the View.OnKeyListener, I only record backspace and enter. It could be a similar problem with TextView. Perhaps the subclass key listeners are sensitive to more events for the given View subclass.

Ok. I finally figured how to do what I want, and I am not proud on Android for this.

I am writing server/client application where on client I have to open SoftKeyboard and send pressed keys (characters and DEL key)... Each time key is pressed, that character is sent to server. If DEL is pressed I am sending sequence {BS} to server.

In order to do that I had to implement TextWatcher and onTextChange which works well except for situation when EditText is empty and user press DEL key. Since there is no change in EditText there is no way to detect that DEL key is pressed.

In addition to TextWatcher, I had to implement onKeyListener which I attached to my EditText control. This onKeyListener ignores all keys on SoftKeyboard except DEL and RETURN. Not sure why? A bug maybe?

Here is my code:

    TextView txtInput = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.txtInput);
    txtInput.addTextChangedListener(inputTextWatcher);

    txtInput.setOnKeyListener(new View.OnKeyListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
            Log.d(TAG, keyCode + " character(code) to send");
            return false;
        }
    });

and TextWatcher....

private TextWatcher inputTextWatcher = new TextWatcher() {
    public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) { }
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after)
        { }
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
        Log.d(TAG, s.charAt(count-1) + " character to send");;          
    }
};