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    <p>So I'm having three EditText- boxes and when the user presses enter in one of them I want to move on the next one. </p> <p>I tried: </p> <pre><code>final EditText email = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText1); email.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener() { public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) { if ((event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN) &amp;&amp; (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER)) { findViewById(R.id.editText2).requestFocus(); return true; } return false; } }); final EditText pass = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText2); pass.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener() { public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) { if ((event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN) &amp;&amp; (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER)) { findViewById(R.id.editText3).requestFocus(); return true; } return false; } }); final EditText passrep = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText3); passrep.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener() { public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) { if ((event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN) &amp;&amp; (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER)) { findViewById(R.id.button1).requestFocus(); return true; } return false; } }); </code></pre> <p>but with this code the focus jumps from editText1 to editText3 on keyboard enter. </p> <p>What works is this (which i found out by accident):</p> <pre><code>final EditText email = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText1); email.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener() { public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) { if ((event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN) &amp;&amp; (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER)) { findViewById(R.id.editText2).requestFocus(); return true; } return false; } }); final EditText pass = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText2); email.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener() { public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) { if ((event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN) &amp;&amp; (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER)) { findViewById(R.id.editText3).requestFocus(); return true; } return false; } }); final EditText passrep = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText3); email.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener() { public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) { if ((event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN) &amp;&amp; (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER)) { findViewById(R.id.button1).requestFocus(); return true; } return false; } }); </code></pre> <p>e.g., setting three different OnKeyListeners all for the same EditText (email). </p> <p>What am I missing here? This is my layout: </p> <pre><code>&lt;EditText android:id="@+id/editText1" android:layout_width="234dp" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" android:ems="10" android:inputType="textEmailAddress" android:layout_marginTop="20dp" android:hint="Email" &gt; &lt;/EditText&gt; &lt;EditText android:id="@+id/editText2" android:layout_width="234dp" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" android:ems="10" android:inputType="textPassword" android:layout_marginTop="20dp" android:hint="Password" /&gt; &lt;EditText android:id="@+id/editText3" android:layout_width="234dp" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" android:ems="10" android:inputType="textPassword" android:layout_marginTop="20dp" android:hint="Confirm Password" /&gt; &lt;Button android:id="@+id/button1" android:layout_width="123dp" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" android:layout_marginTop="35dp" android:text="@string/submit" /&gt; </code></pre>
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