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t
🔃 material3.OutlinedTextField cursor position issue I enter text in the input field and then rotate the device. Then the text cursor is positioned before the first character. Does anyone know how to resolve this?
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l
Did you add the manifest line that allows compose to handle orientation changes? If not, then the activity is probably getting re-created on orientation change.
e
t
Not intentionally. What is the recommended value for 
android:configChanges
when using Compose resp. both XML and Compose across the app?
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import android.os.Bundle
import androidx.activity.ComponentActivity
import androidx.activity.compose.setContent
import androidx.compose.material3.ExperimentalMaterial3Api
import androidx.compose.material3.OutlinedTextField
import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
import androidx.compose.runtime.LaunchedEffect
import androidx.compose.runtime.getValue
import androidx.compose.runtime.mutableStateOf
import androidx.compose.runtime.remember
import androidx.compose.runtime.saveable.rememberSaveable
import androidx.compose.runtime.setValue
import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
import androidx.compose.ui.focus.FocusRequester
import androidx.compose.ui.focus.focusRequester
import com.example.outlinedtextfieldtest.ui.theme.OutlinedTextFieldTestTheme

class MainActivity : ComponentActivity() {

    private var content: Content = Content()

    @ExperimentalMaterial3Api
    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContent {
            Screen(content.text) {
                content = content.copy(text = it)
            }
        }
    }
}


@ExperimentalMaterial3Api
@Composable
private fun Screen(text: String, onTextChanged: (String) -> Unit) {
    OutlinedTextFieldTestTheme {
        val focusRequester = remember { FocusRequester() }
        var localText by rememberSaveable { mutableStateOf(text) }
        OutlinedTextField(
            modifier = Modifier.focusRequester(focusRequester),
            value = localText,
            onValueChange = {
                localText = it
                onTextChanged(it)
            },
        )
        LaunchedEffect(focusRequester) {
            focusRequester.requestFocus()
        }

    }
}

private data class Content(val text: String = "")
p
Adam said autocomplete them all 🤷🏻
l
How much of the app is Compose vs XML, and importantly, what’s XML? If the XML needs to respond to config changes, it’s a lot more difficult, but if the navigation and orientation are handled in Compose, and XML is just sub-views, you can just use the compose method.
s
Also of you use compose dialogs you can't do it either since rotating your device won't trigger them to re-adjust to the new space available to them.
t
Do you know of official guidance in the Google docs? I could not find it explicitly being explained.
s
There isn't anything in the official docs regarding this https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CJLTWPH7S/p1680021891960939?thread_ts=1680020476.757029&cid=CJLTWPH7S since it still has some gotchas so they can't suggest this to everyone without also explaining all the things you need to be careful about.
t
I see. I have a look at my project to see if I can apply is to my activity. Thank you for the pointer.
e
if you use the 
TextFieldValue
overload instead of the 
String
overload, you'll receive and be able to change the cursor/selection position(s)
s
And notably, TextFieldValue does have a 
Saver
in its companion object, so you can do 
rememberSaveable
and this will survive your rotation and activity recreation
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