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P3Issues that are less important to the Flutter projecta: tabletTablets and landscape phonesa: text inputEntering text in a text field or keyboard related problemscustomer: galleryRelating to flutter/gallery repository. Please transfer non-framework issues there.frameworkflutter/packages/flutter repository. See also f: labels.platform-androidAndroid applications specifically

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@eseidelGoogle
eseidelGoogle
opened on Jul 12, 2016

Reported by @amarsten via gitter.

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/master/examples/flutter_gallery/lib/demo/text_field_demo.dart

The demo works fine in portrait mode, but if you turn to landscape everything disappears and the scroll-to-avoid-keyboard behavior doesn't seem to work.

@mpcomplete

Here are two screenshots taken one after another, the only difference is rotating the phone:
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  2. sethladd
    modified the milestone: on Jul 19, 2016

  3. sethladd commented on Jul 19, 2016

    @sethladd
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    on Jul 19, 2016
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    I'm having a hard time reproducing this on iOS. When rotated, I can see the input fields and use the keyboard, on my iPhone 6S.

    But yeah, on Android, I can repro.

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  5. mpcomplete commented on Jul 20, 2016

    @mpcomplete
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    on Jul 20, 2016
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    I thought this was a recent regression, but it dates all the way back to March (and probably before - I didn't test earlier than that).

  6. mpcomplete commented on Jul 27, 2016

    @mpcomplete
    mpcomplete
    on Jul 27, 2016
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    This one is pretty complicated. I suspect it never worked.

    The issue is with the android fullscreen IME mode. Normally, an IME is attached to an EditText widget. I suspect that Android normally uses this EditText widget to display the input text (which Android calls the "extract UI") during fullscreen mode. We don't have an EditText widget.

    Chromium on Android may have to deal with this problem. It's worth seeing how they solved it. If all else fails, Jason recommends building AOSP and instrumenting the base framework code to understand how the full screen IME operates.

    One simple thing we could do right now is disable the fullscreen IME mode. This will show the flutter UI in place of the empty extract UI (just like in portrait mode) so at least something is visible.

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  11. Hixie commented on Nov 7, 2017

    @Hixie
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    on Nov 7, 2017
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    We do not currently plan to provide a full fix for this bug, though we would consider patches if anyone wanted to try to provide a solution.

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  16. guidezpl commented on Apr 13, 2022

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    Closing as no-longer reproducible

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    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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