Testing out my TextField on Android has yielded an interesting result. While bringing up the soft keyboard and typing generally works, the backspace key and none of the number keys work. In regards to numbers these do not work when long-pressing a letter key to bring up a selection and selecting a number, neither do they work when switching to the number/symbol keypad.
I added in System.out.println(evt.getKeyCode() + ":" + evt.getKeyChar()); to the KeyListener to see if there was any output and the listener is not called when any of the keys in question are pressed.
P.S. For the record most of the rarely used symbol keys donāt work either, like the copyright symbol and degrees symbol, but who uses those in a game anyway?
Iāve tracked down the bug and it seems to be because android an android issue. It is recognizing characters as if it were a āgame padā. However, for the backspace and others it doesnāt seem to recognize any device, so jmeās AndroidInputHandler discard the event. I fixed it assuming that if the device is not recognized and the soft-keyboard is open then it must be a touch-input event.
Iām not sure if this is the best way but it now recognizes all keys.
Iāve tried it in Marshmallow (6.0) and KitKat (4.4) and it works fine. I canāt currently try it with jellybean because of the emulator has an old play-services (which canāt be easily upgraded on those emulators) and my game relies on a much newer one.
I have a bad experience using the ā-SNAPSHOTā with jitpack (it didnāt download always the latest commits, even with the āforceā recommendation. However, I just downloaded the latest jme version and built it (./gradlew build).
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