extra characters in textinput on Android

[wjanssen]

Popping up a textinput on Android seems to start with several non-printing characters (they display as rectangles). Additionally, touching a textinput on Android to give it focus seems to inject some non-printing characters into it.

Details:

Buildozer 0.11-dev

When I run git log on the .buildozer/android/platform/python-for-android/ subdir, I see this:

commit 1b55914
Merge: ce48650 df55cf7
Author: Mathieu Virbel mat@kivy.org
Date: Sat May 3 16:38:54 2014 +0200

Merge pull request #205 from kivy/keyboard_height

Introduce method `get_keyboard_height` that returns current softkeyboard

The kivy version is 1.8.0.

I'm using the provided Ubuntu VM.

[wjanssen]

I wrote a little app to see what the extra characters are. They are chr(4). 0x04.

So I suspect the lines

 +        // add a listener for the layout chnages to the IME view
 +        final android.view.View activityRootView = mActivity.getWindow().getDecorView();
 +        activityRootView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new android.view.ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
 +            @Override
 +            public void onGlobalLayout() {
 +                //send control sequence start /x04 == kayboard layout changed
 +                nativeKey(45, 1, 4);
 +                nativeKey(45, 0, 4);
 +                }
 +            });

from commit 1b55914

[akshayaurora]

This has been fixed by 93058cf, follow these steps:

rm ~/.buildozer/android/packages/kivy-stable.zip
bulldozer android clean
Now re-build your apk