cannot enter content through soft keyboard on Android

[wydsjyoung]

I can pop up a soft keyboard and focus the input box, but cannot enter content through soft keyboard

[wydsjyoung]

I tring to build an embeded webview page, using the InAppWebview,but could not enter the content through soft keyboard,the soft keyboard can pop up normally,and the input can get the focus .
Please help me .Thanks.

[crushman1]

Is there no fix for this?

[pichillilorenzo]

Now it should be fixed in 2.0.0. Also, this plugin changed its name to flutter_inappwebview. The current latest version now is 2.1.0+1. So, you can change your dependency influtter_inappwebview: ^2.1.0+1.

[StepanMynarik]

I just encountered the very same thing on flutter_inappwebview 3.2.0, Android 8.0.0

When I click in a text field, keyboard appears, disappears and reappears super quickly (first issue).
I can then enter text, but when the browser navigates further in the background, keyboard stays open. When I click other text field on newly navigated page, text caret blinks, but I can't enter any text (second issue).

EDIT: I also can't switch to the numeric keyboard for example. Better put: I can, but it immediately switches back automatically. Always.

[StepanMynarik]

@pichillilorenzo Just making sure you saw my previous comment. No idea how notifications work on closed issues with no direct mentions.

[pichillilorenzo]

@StevenKek Notifications still send emails to me, don't worry. I have so many messages to read that takes me a lot of time and I'm working alone in this project.

However, the fact is that the keyboard is a mess right now with flutter native views (as you can see in the README.md: "Keyboard support within webviews is also experimental").
I'm trying to add some workarounds to make it work properly. Now, With my latest release 3.3.0 it should hide if you click/touch outside (but inside the WebView) of a text-field.

About your first issue, try the latest version of this plugin. Could you make a screen record of this first issue? Thanks!

About your second issue, if you click and focus on a text-field and then navigate to other pages without closing the keyboard and you try to type into another text-field, it won't work. Probably because the focus of the keyboard is not pointing to the correct text-field. However, as I said, now, if you click outside, the keyboard should hide.

Instead, for the numeric keyboard, I need to investigate more.

[StepanMynarik]

@StevenKek Notifications still send emails to me, don't worry. I have so many messages to read that takes me a lot of time and I'm working alone in this project.

However, the fact is that the keyboard is a mess right now with flutter native views (as you can see in the README.md: "Keyboard support within webviews is also experimental").
I'm trying to add some workarounds to make it work properly. Now, With my latest release 3.3.0 it should hide if you click/touch outside (but inside the WebView) of a text-field.

About your first issue, try the latest version of this plugin. Could you make a screen record of this first issue? Thanks!

About your second issue, if you click and focus on a text-field and then navigate to other pages without closing the keyboard and you try to type into another text-field, it won't work. Probably because the focus of the keyboard is not pointing to the correct text-field. However, as I said, now, if you click outside, the keyboard should hide.

Instead, for the numeric keyboard, I need to investigate more.

I understand. Thanks for intel :)

I also found one more issue, on one of the websites we allow to visit in our InAppWebView there are dropdowns implemented not using select, but by using input element, like so:
<input name="" type="text" autocomplete="nope" placeholder="" tabindex="0" class="multiselect__input" style="width: 0px; position: absolute; padding: 0px;">

When I click it, it opens properly, but at the same time, soft keyboard opens as well and when it opens completely, the dropdown menu is closed automatically. How could I prevent the keyboard from opening in this case? Sorry for piling up so many issues.

About the video, I will try to shoot all the mentioned issues. Never recorded mobile screen, will have to investigate the best way.

EDIT: I also noticed suggestions keyboard panel hiding after opening the keyboard completely, which produced very unpleasant visual experience. I was able to produce a workaround for this though, by setting resizeToAvoidBottomInset: false, on my Scaffold. Just a workaround since the keyboard can now overlay the text field, but hey, it works for now.

[pichillilorenzo]

Could you share the URL containing this input with custom dropdown?
However, It's an input type="text", so, technically, it's correct that the keyboard appears.
Does it work as you expect if you use a browser such as Chrome?

I also noticed suggestions keyboard panel hiding after opening the keyboard completely

Yes, I know about this issue.

[StepanMynarik]

Could you share the URL containing this input with custom dropdown?
However, It's an input type="text", so, technically, it's correct that the keyboard appears.
Does it work as you expect if you use a browser such as Chrome?

I also noticed suggestions keyboard panel hiding after opening the keyboard completely

Yes, I know about this issue.

You are correct. In Firefox it worked correctly, but in Chrome on my device the issue persists. I can't provide the URL since it's login based proprietary website.
I can't change the sites code though. Is there a way to prevent the keyboard from opening there with javascript handlers?

Thanks for the hyper quick answers btw :)