EditableText should show a loupe on iOS when changing selection #9507

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4. cbracken commented on Apr 21, 2017

   

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   Also worth noting that there are two different loupes for iOS, the round one for positioning and the rounded rect for selections.

   I've little digging on this and if we want to have iOS provide this for us, I suspect should be solvable with a little more work on top of what we need for #9344. We'd need to subclass UITextView instead of UIView and to give the view a frame etc. Alternatively, we could reimplement ourselves.

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5. xster commented on Apr 21, 2017

   

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   Having iOS provide it for us could be neat. But we would have to solve the philosophical divergence with the existing implementation in text_selection.dart I'm afraid.

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   Cupertino widgets work is not on our near-term priority list. Moving to next milestone.
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9. xster commented on Jun 4, 2018

   

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   getting it from the OS would definitely be worth trying. It's a departure from the Android text selection UI but it seems reasonable for something users are unlikely to modify.
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16. justinmc commented on Jan 6, 2022

    

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    It's on my plate to get this implemented soon, for iOS and Android. No work done yet but I'll keep this updated. I agree that Flutter really needs this.

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17. jenkliu commented on May 18, 2022

    

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    Putting in an upvote for this – text editing is a core part of our app so this would significantly improve the user experience!

    Any updates on when it'll be on the roadmap? Thanks @justinmc !
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    @jenkliu Yes, good timing! @antholeole is taking on this project and starting some preliminary research. We hope to ship something this summer for iOS and Android. We'll keep this issue and #17617 updated with any progress.

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20. iosephmagno commented on Jun 2, 2022

    

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    Any news about that? Magnifying glass is a core feature on ios textfield. Not having it looks like cross-platform, but even worse, common users would consider it just as a bug.

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21. antholeole commented on Jun 2, 2022

    

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    @iosephmagno I'm working on it: development of the loupe is in full swing. Design doc should be out later this week 👍

    We hear you - I want this feature in too!

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22. matthew-carroll commented on Jun 2, 2022

    

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    FYI - For those of you who really need it, you can build a magnifier yourself. I can't promise that you'll be able to respond to the right gestures when you try to apply it to a Flutter EditableText. But if you want to see how to build your own, check out implementation in super_editor: https://github.com/superlistapp/super_editor/blob/main/super_editor/lib/src/infrastructure/platforms/ios/magnifier.dart

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    linked a pull request that will close this issueLoupe Android + iOS #107477on Jul 12, 2022
24. kellysjung commented on Jul 18, 2022

    

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    I just wanted to make sure that this issue was also addressing the moving the cursor without long-press functionality? Based on the thread, it sounds like it is! Could we update the title?
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    closed this as completedin #107477on Aug 2, 2022
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    changed the title [-]EditableText should show a loupe on iOS when moving the cursor[/-] [+]EditableText should show a loupe on iOS when changing selection[/+] on Aug 8, 2022
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    @kellysjung Done, thanks for catching that. This should show the loupe in all of the same situations that native does. If it doesn't please let me know by opening an issue and tagging me!
28. justinmc commented on Aug 11, 2022

    

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    Actually I spoke too soon, looks like longpress is currently broken but on the way soon: #108823
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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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