SearchBar fails to show keyboard on Android after coming back from the background

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Steps to reproduce

Click the SearchBar. They keyboard will come up
Send the app to the background
Come back from the background
Click the SearchBar. The keyboard will not show

Extra info:
I tested on two Android devices. On my Pixel 2 running Android 11 everything worked fine. The problem happened on my Pixel 6 running Android 13

Expected results

When I come back from the background, I expect to see the keyboard again, or at least that it shows again if I click the SearchBar.

Actual results

I can't call the keyboard back

Code sample

void main() {
  runApp(const MyApp());
}

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  const MyApp({super.key});

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      title: 'Flutter Demo',
      theme: ThemeData(
        colorScheme: ColorScheme.fromSeed(seedColor: Colors.deepPurple),
        useMaterial3: true,
      ),
      home: const Scaffold(
        body: Center(child: SearchBar()),
      ),
    );
  }
}

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Screenshots / Video demonstration

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14rhlifS67w9rBBkJvMrqFUFonAoB8vOa/view?usp=sharing

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Flutter Doctor output

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Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.13.4, on macOS 13.5.2 22G91 darwin-arm64
    (Rosetta), locale en-BR)
[!] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version
    33.0.0-rc1)
    ✗ Android license status unknown.
      Run `flutter doctor --android-licenses` to accept the SDK licenses.
      See https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install/macos#android-setup for
      more details.
[✓] Xcode - develop for iOS and macOS (Xcode 14.3.1)
[✓] Chrome - develop for the web
[!] Android Studio (not installed)
[✓] IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (version 2023.2.2)
[✓] VS Code (version 1.80.1)
[✓] Connected device (4 available)
[✓] Network resources

@AndreHaueisen

Hi @AndreHaueisen, I'm curious, do you only experience this when you use the gesture-based navigation in android?

@danagbemava-nc

Hey, @danagbemava-nc. No, it also happens when the 3-button navigation is active

@AndreHaueisen

@AndreHaueisen I checked this on my two devices (Realme 6 Android 11 and Pixel 4 Android 13) but can't reproduce the issue.
Can you re-check this with a simple TextField widget? Please also confirm if the issue is reproducible on a newly created Flutter project or only on the current project.

@huycozy

@huycozy The problem is specific to SearchBar. TextField works as expected.
I created a new project and tested it again. Same problem.

@AndreHaueisen

Thanks for the info @AndreHaueisen. Initially, I could not reproduce when I used the 3-button navigation. I tried again today and it could reproduce, however, in my case, this was not consistent. So far, this only reproduced on android for me.

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complete sample

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() {
  runApp(const MyApp());
}

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  const MyApp({super.key});

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      title: 'Flutter Demo',
      theme: ThemeData(
        colorScheme: ColorScheme.fromSeed(seedColor: Colors.deepPurple),
        useMaterial3: true,
      ),
      home: const Scaffold(
        body: Center(child: SearchBar()),
      ),
    );
  }
}

flutter doctor -v

[!] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.13.5, on macOS 13.5.2 22G91 darwin-arm64, locale en-GB)
    • Flutter version 3.13.5 on channel stable at /Users/nexus/dev/sdks/flutter
    ! Warning: `flutter` on your path resolves to /Users/nexus/dev/sdks/flutters/bin/flutter, which is not inside your current Flutter SDK checkout at /Users/nexus/dev/sdks/flutter. Consider adding /Users/nexus/dev/sdks/flutter/bin to the front of your path.
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    • Upstream repository https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
    • Framework revision 12fccda598 (34 hours ago), 2023-09-19 13:56:11 -0700
    • Engine revision bd986c5ed2
    • Dart version 3.1.2
    • DevTools version 2.25.0
    • If those were intentional, you can disregard the above warnings; however it is recommended to use "git" directly to perform update checks and upgrades.

[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 33.0.1)
    • Android SDK at /Users/nexus/Library/Android/sdk
    • Platform android-33, build-tools 33.0.1
    • Java binary at: /Users/nexus/Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jbr/Contents/Home/bin/java
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 17.0.6+0-17.0.6b829.9-10027231)
    • All Android licenses accepted.

[✓] Xcode - develop for iOS and macOS (Xcode 15.0)
    • Xcode at /Applications/Xcode-15.0.0-Release.Candidate.app/Contents/Developer
    • Build 15A240d
    • CocoaPods version 1.12.1

[✓] Chrome - develop for the web
    • Chrome at /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome

[✓] Android Studio (version 2022.3)
    • Android Studio at /Users/nexus/Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents
    • Flutter plugin can be installed from:
      🔨 https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9212-flutter
    • Dart plugin can be installed from:
      🔨 https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/6351-dart
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 17.0.6+0-17.0.6b829.9-10027231)

[✓] IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition (version 2023.2.2)
    • IntelliJ at /Users/nexus/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate.app
    • Flutter plugin version 75.1.4
    • Dart plugin version 232.9559.10

[✓] VS Code (version 1.82.2)
    • VS Code at /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents
    • Flutter extension version 3.72.0

[✓] Connected device (5 available)
    • Pixel 7 (mobile)     • 28291FDH2001SA            • android-arm64  • Android 13 (API 33)
    • Nexus (mobile)       • 00008020-001875E83A38002E • ios            • iOS 17.0 21A329
    • Dean’s iPad (mobile) • 00008103-000825C811E3401E • ios            • iOS 17.0 21A329
    • macOS (desktop)      • macos                     • darwin-arm64   • macOS 13.5.2 22G91 darwin-arm64
    • Chrome (web)         • chrome                    • web-javascript • Google Chrome 117.0.5938.88

[✓] Network resources
    • All expected network resources are available.

! Doctor found issues in 1 category.

[✓] Flutter (Channel master, 3.14.0-14.0.pre.410, on macOS 13.5.2 22G91 darwin-arm64, locale en-GB)
    • Flutter version 3.14.0-14.0.pre.410 on channel master at /Users/nexus/dev/sdks/flutters
    • Upstream repository https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
    • Framework revision 07cc3f7a61 (74 minutes ago), 2023-09-21 07:54:19 +0200
    • Engine revision 3e66ffa6aa
    • Dart version 3.2.0 (build 3.2.0-185.0.dev)
    • DevTools version 2.28.0-dev.12

[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 33.0.1)
    • Android SDK at /Users/nexus/Library/Android/sdk
    • Platform android-33, build-tools 33.0.1
    • Java binary at: /Users/nexus/Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jbr/Contents/Home/bin/java
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 17.0.6+0-17.0.6b829.9-10027231)
    • All Android licenses accepted.

[✓] Xcode - develop for iOS and macOS (Xcode 15.0)
    • Xcode at /Applications/Xcode-15.0.0-Release.Candidate.app/Contents/Developer
    • Build 15A240d
    • CocoaPods version 1.12.1

[✓] Chrome - develop for the web
    • Chrome at /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome

[✓] Android Studio (version 2022.3)
    • Android Studio at /Users/nexus/Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents
    • Flutter plugin can be installed from:
      🔨 https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9212-flutter
    • Dart plugin can be installed from:
      🔨 https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/6351-dart
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 17.0.6+0-17.0.6b829.9-10027231)

[✓] IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition (version 2023.2.2)
    • IntelliJ at /Users/nexus/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate.app
    • Flutter plugin version 75.1.4
    • Dart plugin version 232.9559.10

[✓] VS Code (version 1.82.2)
    • VS Code at /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents
    • Flutter extension version 3.72.0

[✓] Connected device (5 available)
    • Pixel 7 (mobile)     • 28291FDH2001SA            • android-arm64  • Android 13 (API 33)
    • Nexus (mobile)       • 00008020-001875E83A38002E • ios            • iOS 17.0 21A329
    • Dean’s iPad (mobile) • 00008103-000825C811E3401E • ios            • iOS 17.0 21A329
    • macOS (desktop)      • macos                     • darwin-arm64   • macOS 13.5.2 22G91 darwin-arm64
    • Chrome (web)         • chrome                    • web-javascript • Google Chrome 117.0.5938.88

[✓] Network resources
    • All expected network resources are available.

• No issues found!

The triaged-android label is irrelevant if there is no team-android label or fyi-android label.

I'm able to reproduce this on the master branch as well. I haven't been able to track down exactly why since it is a bit inconsistent but I think it has something to do with the fact that we activate the TextField by calling requestFocus on its FocusNode rather than interacting with the underlying TextField through TextSelectionGestureDetector. I'm not able to reproduce this issue on my PR that enables text selection in the search bar #137636 . I'll try to write a regression test to confirm this is fixed.

Fix text selection in `SearchAnchor/SearchBar` (#137636)

This was closed by #137636 which has landed on the master branch, if you are still experiencing this issue please feel free to re-open.

This thread has been automatically locked since there has not been any recent activity after it was closed. If you are still experiencing a similar issue, please open a new bug, including the output of flutter doctor -v and a minimal reproduction of the issue.

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danagbemava-nc commented on Sep 19, 2023

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