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Does Android (or androidx) have a way to add multiple key listeners for hardware keyboard/d-pad?

I am trying to handle key presses in my jetpack compose composable and I don't have an `Activity` to override.

So far I've found `View#setOnKeyListener`  which works. I'm hesitant of using it, since I am working on a library and I don't want to override any existing listeners, or others overriding my listener.

Jetbrains is working on adding an api for keyboard shortcuts, would that work for your use case?
<https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform-core/commit/a93a15772a88f577fc0cff3c5ef58a468e7494b8>

<@U0KMMQA20> I am not sure what I am looking at to be frank. where should i focus?

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I ended up looking the whole thing. from an api POV, then maybe? if that works w/o requiring focus then it should be work for my case.

I had a look at the implementation and i couldnt figure out how it works. getting late so ill check again tomorrow

What are you trying to build? If it’s some version of “commands”, this should help and any feedback you have for them might be useful.

I am building a <https://github.com/composablehorizons/compose-menu/tree/main|Dropdown Menu> component (for <https://composablehorizons.github.io/compose-menu/|demo click here>). There was this bug where opening the popup would not focus on the popup content, so pressing down/up would not move the focus in the list.

I fixed it by handling the key presses on the platform level as it does not require focus. <https://github.com/composablehorizons/compose-menu/commit/7e0e92972cd884340ef8692eafb4b016db46cf52|See this commit>

Oh, ok I think that’s entirely different 

I think I saw in a few places in the API about 'keyboard shortcuts' but i still don't get what they are. How are they different to key events?

Well, I don’t think you’d get raw events, you just be notified that some combination of keys was pressed.