Disabling the Android hide keyboard soft button
<p>On a device with a virtual set of hard buttons, is there any way to show the virtual back button instead of showing the virtual close keyboard button when user is interacting with an EditText widget? For example, on the Nexus 7 Android 4.1:</p>

<p><img src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/HGETW.png" alt="Screen shot of nexus 7 soft buttons with close keyboard | home | apps"></p>

<p>For this dialog, when editing text, I'd rather see:</p>

<p><img src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/0nesv.png" alt="Screen shot of nexus 7 soft buttons with back | home | apps"></p>

<p>I'd like a dialog I bring up to only allow the keyboard action button -- search in my case -- or the back button to be pressed. It doesn't make sense to hide the keyboard.</p>

<p>Edit: as pointed out below, physical back button does same as virtual hide keyboard button when keyboard is open: it closes the keyboard.</p>
