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English - Android => Bug reports => Topic started by: diqua01 on May 08, 2016, 11:02:55 pm
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Hello,
since some recent version of aquamail, I don't get my standard keyboardlayout (Deutsch/Schweizerdeutsch) when composing a new mail (focus is in the "to/cc/bcc" field). It's allways the second aditional keyboardlayout (Math layout) of Anysoft keyboard. See screenshot of active layouts of.Anysoft keyboard).
(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160508/e827c3f44251745964d9afb82b35891e.jpg)
I allways have to switch the keyboardlayout manually to have right characters. In the other fields (subject/textarea) the keyboardlayout keeps the correct one. If I klick in the "to/cc/bcc" field, the keyboardlayout switchrd to Math layout.
Is there a way to define the standard keyboard layout for the "to/cc/bcc" field?
Sony Xperia V with android 4.3, aquamail V 1.6.2 dev5
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The only thing I can think of is --
-- the "from/cc/bcc" fields are marked as "intended for entering email addresses" (as opposed to "intended for text").
android:inputType="textEmailAddress|textMultiLine"
This is a standard Android thing, and the soft keyboard app can read this "input type" and adjust itself appropriately.
For example, if a field is marked as "for numbers", the soft keyboard will have only digits. This is done by the keyboard app itself.
In other words, please report this to AnySoft support.
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In other words, please report this to AnySoft support.
In confirmation to that, I can say that Multyling Keyboard (a different app) seems to behave correctly. I don't have a separate choice for math layout, but no language switching happens by itself.
(As an aside: I actually would prefer if it automatically switched to English from non-English, as all e-mail addresses and all my contacts are in English, but I don't expect that, because it would break the expected behavior for people with other languages in Contacts. )
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Re: Multyling Keyboard (a different app) seems to behave correctly
So do Google Keyboard (which has a distinct entry for Swiss German) and SwiftKey (which does not), just the ones I've tried.
And yes, apps don't control what soft keyboards *do* or how they *look*, they only "hint at" what they need (input type: text, phone, email, web address, etc.)