Q:

How can I customize the actions associated with my Moto Droid's hardware buttons?

I want to be able to redefine what the hardware buttons on my Motorola Droid do.  By buttons I mean the 4 capacitive buttons on the bottom: Back, Menu, Home & Search and the Camera button and Volume buttons on the side.  I have seen several apps that allow you to change what the Camera and Search buttons do but I want the ability to redefine them all.  Can this be done?  If so, how?

A:

Got it, ButtonRemapper.

A:

Button Shortcut will let you assign shortcuts to the camera and search buttons.
The home button could be replaced with another home launcher-like app that handles that intent.
However, I do not believe you will be able to re-map the menu and and back buttons without root access to the phone's system due to security reasons.  Although within an application you should be able to programatically take control over these buttons with listener events (but it is strongly discouraged to override the default behavior of the back button without valid reasons).

