How To Determine If Someone Is Typing On EditText

I am designing a chat application using android studio and i am using fire-base as cloud service provider and i got stock on how to make a listener like if the user is typing on th

Solution 1:

Implement the TextWatcher on your edittext like this

    EditText myTextBox = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.myTextBox);
  myTextBox.addTextChangedListener(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) {
   // Here you can trigger your another code/function about which you are asking
   }
  });

Hope it will help!

Solution 2:

you can use OnFocusChangeListener, if the textview has focus then the user is typing. for more information you can check here http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.OnFocusChangeListener.html