[BUG] Input suggestions disabled.

[SoftwareBugFinder]

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Current Behavior

I use two keyboards - Hacker's Keyboard and HeliBoard.
Both keyboards offer word suggestions as you type, e.g. when entering a message using ... GChat, Signal, Skype, Telegram, Zangi and probably loads more ....

When entering a message in session neither keyboard offers word suggestions, auto-complete or auto-spelling. (Both keyboard provide such features).

This seams to be consistent with session, ''telling'' the keyboard not to offer suggestions (e.g. when entering as password).

Expected Behavior

When entering a message I expect Session to allow a keyboard to offer word suggestions, auto-complete and auto-spelling to function (where keyboard provides such features).

This will bring session into line with GChat, Signal, Skype, Telegram, Zangi and probably loads more ....

Steps To Reproduce

1. Application running.
2. Select a contact
3. Select the message compose field
4. Users chosen keyboard (with word suggestion capability) is opened
5. Start composing a message, no word suggestions are shown and auto-complete & auto-spelling do not function (where keyboard provides such features).

Android Version

Android 10

Session Version

1.20.8 (3905 - 75e2b8)

Anything else?

Other message services - GChat, Signal, Skype, Telegram, Zangi and probably loads more .... allow keyboards to offer word suggestions when composing a message.

[ThomasSession]

Thanks for the feedback.
We made the change in an existing branch. It won't be live until later on because we have a feature update coming first, but it fixed in the code and will be available as soon as we can.

[KeeJef]

Which branch or PR is this in @ThomasSession ?

[ThomasSession]

This was on this PR:
748ccf0
Which will be brought into our upcoming 1.22.0.

[ThomasSession]

@SoftwareBugFinder 1.22.0 is out now (on a staged rollout, meaning it will slowly be released to all users).
If you manage to get 1.22.0 you can check to see if the issue is fixed.

[ThomasSession]

@SoftwareBugFinder Let us know if that worked for you, if so we can close this ticket.

[SoftwareBugFinder]

Hi all, thanks for the updates.

Apologies for the late response took a while for the update to arrive and the real life got in the way.

Sorry, looks to be a partial fix.

Session:
Suggestions on HeliBoard work.
Suggestions on Hacker's Keyboard do not work

The others I initially mentioned still offer suggestions on HeliBoard and Hacker's Keyboard.

I use both keyboards, depending on the situation.

[ThomasSession]

@SoftwareBugFinder Hacker's keyboard is no longer available and hasn't been maintained for several years so it likely doesn't comply to modern android code, unfortunately.