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Spellcheck for EditableText on iOS/Android #34688
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Related Issue: #12920 autocorrection
Related UIKit documentation: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uitextinputtraits/1624461-spellcheckingtype
- Red underline to mark misspelled words
- Spellcheck on typing & double-tap selection & caret moving, etc.
- When a word is marked misspelled, show correction candidate list bubble on:
- Single tap
- Moving the caret to the end of the word by pressing backspace.
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High-priority issues at the top of the work listEntering text in a text field or keyboard related problemsNothing broken; request for a new capabilityflutter/engine related. See also e: labels.flutter/packages/flutter repository. See also f: labels.Android applications specificallyiOS applications specifically
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HansMuller commentedon Nov 27, 2019
Android also supports a spell checking service: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/spell-checker-framework
ajviera commentedon Jul 24, 2020
Any news on this issue? It would be ideal to be able to have this so that the applications are more similar to the native ones.
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camsim99 commentedon Aug 26, 2022
This is still in progress. Part of Android support was added in #109643 and iOS is on the way #110193. I'll update this issue when full support for both is completed.
mohamedali170 commentedon Oct 16, 2022
Hi @camsim99,
Any updates?
camsim99 commentedon Oct 24, 2022
@mohamedali170 Android and iOS both have partial implementation. Implementation of the red underline and the toolbar with suggestions for Android and iOS is expected around EOY. I'll update this issue when more pieces of the implementation land!
mohamedali170 commentedon Oct 25, 2022
Well, thanks very much for your efforts @camsim99 . I hope you can finish the remaining implementation in the near future.
camsim99 commentedon Dec 22, 2022
Just wanted to update here that I have merged the remaining implementation on Android into the
masterbranch as of : #114460. Still working on somethings related to testing, though, as well as iOS!blopker commentedon Dec 22, 2022
Nice! Do you have an idea which version this might land in?
camsim99 commentedon Dec 22, 2022
@blopker This should probably be in the next stable release if not the next beta release. Eventually, you can look for a version number on the merge commit of my latest PR, but it's not tagged now: e0742eb.
jonbhanson commentedon Jan 25, 2023
It appears this feature has landed in Flutter 3.7. To use it, add this parameter to your EditableText or TextField:
(The spell check configuration currently seems to break on web)
blopker commentedon Jan 26, 2023
Good progress! Sad news about web though. Hopefully we won't have to wait until another point release for it.
camsim99 commentedon Jan 30, 2023
@jonbhanson yes, spell check is partially implemented on both! Thank you for pointing out the crash on web. Filed an issue to follow up on better solutions for crashing in that case #119542
durbek03 commentedon Mar 22, 2023
leighajarett commentedon May 12, 2023
Closing this since it's now complete for iOS and Android as of 3.10
github-actions commentedon May 26, 2023
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