1250476 - [Meta] Third-party keyboard compatibility

Status: NEW

(Firefox for iOS :: General, defect)

Description

[Stefan Arentz | :st3fan | ⏰ EST | he/him]

Here is some initial investigation for three popular keyboards:

Action                 Standard
New tab                (empty)
Type 'sea'             sea[rch.yahoo.com]
Backspace              sea
Type 'r'               sear[ch.yahoo.com'
Backspace 4x           (empty)
Type 'foo bar'         foo bar
Backspace 4x           foo
backspace 3x           (empty)
Type 's'               s[earch.yahoo.com]
Type 'l'               sl[ickdeals.com]

Action                 SwiftKey
New tab                (empty)
Type 'sea'             se[arch.yahoo.com]
Backspace              s[earch.yahoo.com]
Type 'r'               sr
Backspace 4x           (empty)
Type 'foo bar'         foo bar
Backspace 4x           foo[dnetwork.com]
backspace 3x           (empty)
Type 's'               s[earch.yahoo.com]
Type 'l'               sl[ickdeals.com]

Action                 Swype
New tab                (empty)
Type 'sea'             s[earch.yahoo.com]
Backspace              (empty)
Type 'r'               (fail bad state)
Backspace 4x           (fail bad state)
Type 'foo bar'         (fail bad state)
Backspace 4x           (fail bad state)
backspace 3x           (fail bad state)
Type 's'               s[earch.yahoo.com]
Type 'l'               s[earch.yahoo.com]


Action                 Fleksy
New tab                (empty)
Type 'sea'             sea[rch.yahoo.com]
Backspace              se[arch.yahoo.com]
Type 'r'               ser
Backspace 4x           (empty)
Type 'foo bar'         foo bar
Backspace 4x           foo[dnetwork.com]
backspace 3x           (empty)
Type 's'               s[earch.yahoo.com]
Type 'l'               sl[ickdeals.com]

Comment 1

[Stefan Arentz | :st3fan | ⏰ EST | he/him]

Hi all,

I've spent some time re-testing the 3'rd party keyboards and the related existing bugs on latest master build. Here's a brief testing summary:

Keyboards used:

    Swype
    GBoard
    Fleksy
    SwiftKey
    Go Keyboard

Scenarios tested:

    Type "g" => see "google.com"
    Type "g", hit backspace => see the URL empty
    Type "go", hit backspace => see "g" and no autocompletion
    Type "go", hit backspace, type "o" => see "google.com"
    Type "Final",  press predictive word "Final" => see "Final"
    Type "go." => see "go."
    Type "g", see "google.com", then tap the input field => the completion is accepted
    Type "g", see "google.com", then hit "Go" => "google.com" is loaded in the current tab


Existing issues:

    Bug 1194714 - URL bar text input misbehaves with Swype (and other third-party keyboards?)
        I consider this to be a blocker

    Bug 1278470 - Typing in third party keyboard predictive typing ruins input
        This issue affects the use of predictive text in GBoard, Swiftkey and Fleksy and it would be nice to have it fixed.  ATM, I'm not sure is if this should be considered a blocker.

    Bug 1367006 - [Go keyboard] Imputed text gets duplicated when pressing on dot [.]
        This is specific to Go Keyboard and should not be a blocker.

    Bug 1209052 - URL autocomplete interferes with Swiftkey (and possibly other custom keyboards)
        Wasn't able to reproduce it. I'll ask for more details from :sheppy

    There's one other pretty bad issue with Fleksy. After starting Firefox, the keyboard is completely frozen/unusable for about 30 seconds. This happens only on phones. Safari/other apps are having the same issue, so I didn't file a bug.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The meta keyword is there, the bug doesn't depend on other bugs and there is no activity for 12 months.
:jeevans, maybe it's time to close this bug?