Autocomplete doesn't commit text to input field.

[Sam Bull]

In many cases, the autocomplete feature causes the text to not be committed correctly. For example, entering a text message in the messaging app, and hitting the send button typically causes the last word to not be sent, as it's still in autocomplete mode.

This is a known bug, and it was suggested that the messaging app must force the keyboard to flush the text before sending. However, I've since noticed this problem throughout the OS, for example in the WiFi password prompt, clicking send causes it to think you entered nothing. I think this is present in the messaging indicator as well, and other apps.

Considering how widespread the problem is, and not being able to rely on app developers to handle this correctly, it is important that this is fixed in the keyboard/toolkit.

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[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

This was fixed for messaging-app per bug #1271494
The likely solution for cases like the password field is to turn off the predictive text options on the field.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

 Łukasz can you comment?

[Sam Bull (dreamsorcerer)]

As a user, I expect anything typed into the text field to be used when the app uses the data (e.g. when clicking send).

As a developer, I expect that when I request the contents of the text field I get all the text in the text field.

At the moment, the developer expectation is not met, which results in not handling it correctly in the apps and thus the user expectation is not met either (in most cases).

So, a solution I would suggest is to implement it in the toolkit, so that whenever the code requests the text field data, it either automatically flushes the keyboard, or it includes the keyboard's buffer in the text returned.

The latter has advantages of allowing search-as-you-type and keyboard autocomplete at the same time. For example, using the unity search, it should search the internet as you are typing, but it may still be beneficial at times to autocomplete the word the user is typing. This situation cannot be handled at all with the current implementation.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

Also seen in the friends app