Opened 3 months ago
Closed 4 days ago
#15311 closed defect (fixed)
ANDROID: In-App keyboard not available when using bluetooth mouse
| Reported by: | OliKosch | Owned by: | lephilousophe |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | Port: Android |
| Version: | Keywords: | usability, external hardware | |
| Cc: | Game: |
Description
When using the app (tested with v2.8.0 and latest daily build) with a bluetooth mouse one can't enable the in-app
keyboard (e.g. to enter a savegame name). Tapping and holding the input selector does nothing. As soon as the bluetooth connection is disabled, the keyboard becomes selectable again.
Change History (4)
comment:1 by , 3 months ago
| Version: | gsoc |
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comment:3 by , 4 weeks ago
| Summary: | In-App keyboard not available when using bluetooth mouse → ANDROID: In-App keyboard not available when using bluetooth mouse |
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comment:4 by , 4 days ago
| Owner: | set to |
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| Resolution: | → fixed |
| Status: | new → closed |
I checked with my Logitech BT mouse.
The mouse advertises itself as a keyboard. That's why Android considers it like one.
There is a setting in the Hardware keyboard section which allows to keep displaying the IME when a hardware keyboard is present.
I pushed a fix in 72dcdcc9c646d9ab5a73e8d10db1d756d01599dd which considers this setting although it's not officially exposed.
In addition, now, the toggle button (long press on the input method icon) will forcibly display the keyboard.
I see this too on my device (Android 12, microsoft bluetooth mouse (BLE 5)).
The issue here is that Android wrongly detects the bluetooth mouse as a Hardware Keyboard Input device. I don't know why this is (maybe it's a known bug for Android?).
Googling the issue online I get these results that seem to mention the same thing:
https://r1.community.samsung.com/t5/tablets/on-screen-keyboard-and-bluetooth-mouse/td-p/14665410
https://www.reddit.com/r/SamsungDex/comments/lutt3g/dexandroid_mouse_detected_as_keyboard_input/
https://www.quora.com/How-come-you-cant-use-your-on-screen-keyboard-and-mouse-at-the-same-time-on-Android-Is-there-a-way-to-get-the-on-screen-keyboard-to-pop-up-while-using-a-mouse-on-Android-11
So, then the ScummVM app, thinks that there's a hardware keyboard connected and it won't show the keyboard overlay. The issue of course is not restricted to the ScummVM app.
As of yet, I cannot think of a workaround for this.
The workaround mentioned in the linked google results will not work for ScummVM --it's only for the system's on-screen keyboard which the ScummVM does not use. But, furthermore, you wouldn't want the on-screen keyboard to appear if you actually had a physical keyboard connected as well.
I wonder if this has been submitted to Google as a proper bug ticket for Android.