598617 - Alternate keyboard (SwiftKey) does not work correctly w/ Fennec

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Eric]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10
Build Identifier: 2.0b1pre (2010/09/21 nightly)

Entering text in Fennec w/ the SwiftKey keyboard does not work correctly.

SwiftKey available here:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.touchtype.swiftkey.trial

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Fennec w/ SwiftKey enabled
2. Tap awesome bar
3. Try to enter a URL, like touch.facebook.com.
Actual Results:  
Hitting the "." will delete the "h"

Expected Results:  
Should be able to use alternate keyboards w/ Fennec w/ correct keyboard behavior.

Happens on other text inputs as well. Various keys don't work correctly.

Comment 1

[Eric]

Running HTC EVO4G w/ Stock Froyo ROM

Comment 2

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv71; rv2.0b7pre) Gecko/20100927 Firefox/4.0b7pre Fennec/2.0b1pre

Confirmed with Swiftkey on Fennec.  Does not occur with Swiftkey on stock web browser.  Using Nexus 1.

Comment 3

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

Litmus test case created : 

https://litmus.mozilla.org/show_test.cgi?searchType=by_id&id=13541

Comment 5

[Brian Carpenter [:geeknik]]

New version of Swiftkey was just released that fixes this issue.

Comment 6

[Brian Crowder]

If this was a SwiftKey bug, why was the Android browser not affected by it?

Comment 7

[Brian Carpenter [:geeknik]]

Brian, I don't have an answer for you, but I can confirm that it is fixed using their update and the latest nightly build of Fennec.

http://www.swiftkey.net/changelog.1.0.936.txt

- Firefox for Android cursor bug fixed

Comment 8

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

Verified/confirmed:
Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv71; rv2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101015 Firefox/4.0b8pre Fennec/4.0b2pre