649688 - Regression: Landscape keyboard obscures form fields and UI on HTC G2

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 649051

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open http://bugzilla.mozilla.org in landscape mode.
2. Tap in a form field near the bottom of the page.

Expected results: The form-helper arrows are visible, and the form field is scrolled into view after the keyboard appears.

Actual results (on T-Mobile G2 with either Swype or Android keyboard): The landscape keyboard covers up the form field and the form helper arrows.  This is also true in Fennec chrome text fields, e.g. the add-on search field.

On Galaxy Tab, I get the expected results.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

From when is this regression? Tracking for now, but it's not clear what the resolution should be.

Comment 2

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

This is a regression from bug 614355.  If there's not a simple fix, we can pref off that change.  (The prefs introduced in bug 614355 allow us to disable the change for all devices, or just for small-screen devices.)

Mark Finkle reports that the Nexus One shows the expected behavior, so this bug might be limited to the G2, or some unknown subset of devices.

Both the G2 and Galaxy Tab are running Android 2.2.

Comment 3

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

the form helper part of this isn't really a regression since the fullscreen keyboard obscured all of the UI prior to bug 614355 landing.

Comment 4

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

I get the same experience of the form helper and the fields being covered by the Virtual keyboard, esp on the fields that are located mid page (rather than the ones on the top of the page) http://people.mozilla.com/~nhirata/html_tp/formsninputv2.html

Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv71; rv2.2a1pre) Gecko/20110413 Firefox/4.2a1pre Fennec/4.1a1pre
Device: Droid 2 
OS: Android 2.2

Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv71; rv2.2a1pre) Gecko/20110413 Firefox/4.2a1pre Fennec/4.1a1pre
Device: Thunderbolt
OS: Android 2.2

Comment 5

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

Bug 629246 , bug 626355, bug 609940 ( 623469)?

Comment 6

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Attachment: Revert to full-screen KB on phones

This patch tweaks the preferences, causing us to revert to the previous behavior (full-screen keyboard) on phone-sized devices.  It keeps the new behavior (non-full-screen keyboard) on the Samsung Galaxy Tab and larger devices.

This isn't ideal, but it's the simplest change that prevents this regression on the G2, and I think it's probably the right fix for Aurora.  We can try for a better fix in Firefox 6 or later.

Comment 7

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

Comment on attachment 525842 [details] [diff] [review]
Revert to full-screen KB on phones

IMO the non-full screen keyboard is a much better experience on my atrix. Let's try to figure out what's wrong with the G2 before changing the behavior

Comment 8

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

This might have something to do with it:
http://hi-android.info/docs/reference/android/R.attr.html#windowSoftInputMode

Comment 9

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Never mind, we already set "adjustResize" in our AndroidManifest.xml.

Comment 10

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

I also see this on my DroidX. Reading around a bit, I think it is just a bug in Android. Maybe we can only NOT show the fullscreen keyboard for the urlbar?

Comment 11

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

perhaps we need to whitelist?

Comment 12

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

Also occurs in various other places such as Find in Page, Edit BookMark, Search Catalog (in Plugins Preference Control Panel), etc.

Comment 13

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

Also note : Bug 649943 - VKB overlays urlbar menu, http auth and javascript prompts, panning doesn't work (virtual keyboard)

Comment 16

[obsolete.fax]

@[e-mail] : I removed tracking Firefox 5. Not sure if I made a mistake. Sorry.