I'm sure this is just a noob issue, but I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to get hardware...

# compose

[Ryan Brink]

I'm sure this is just a noob issue, but I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to get hardware keys like tab and enter to correspond to shifts in focus for compose 😕 I will paste my simple composable in the thread, really hope that someone can point me in the right direction

CleanShot 2023-07-29 at 14.18.43.mp4

[Ryan Brink]

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[Stylianos Gakis]

Might not help here, I’ve never had to do this myself, but I’d start by at least making your text field use singleLine = true as a parameter, to at least not start a new line on enter press.
If this alone doesn’t help I’m also out of ideas, just thought I’d share this idea 😄

[Ryan Brink]

🙂 thanks, that doesn't fix the problem, but it is worth adding, since you would not want to allow multi line usernames and logins

[Stylianos Gakis]

Ah unfortunate! Hope you find your solution still 🤞

[Alex Styl]

@Ryan Brink out of curiosity, how are you triggering the 'tab' and 'enter' hardware keys on the android?

[Ryan Brink]

just by typing it on my physical keyboard, but, I am also building this as a multiplatform project, so, same goes for desktop (and eventually wasm), which is why this is important

[Jeff Lockhart]

Here's some resources on focus for Android and Desktop.

[Peter Mandeljc]

I think tab won't work for you on a mobile device. Keyboard usually has "next" option, to move focus to next item. I think tab focus switch is only a thing on desktop

[Peter Mandeljc]

Maybe compose for desktop behaves differently in that regard?

[Ryan Brink]

interesting... yes ok, it seems like the behavior is mostly there on desktop (only thing missing is "enter" acting as a login action) but that is not the end of the world. So i guess these just operate differently on android vs desktop. Good to know, thanks for the assist!

I'm curious what this means for tablets, potentially with a bluetooth keyboard attached 🤔

CleanShot 2023-07-29 at 17.06.11.mp4

[Killian]

I recall this is a bug because in xml you are able to achieve this quite easily. Not sure if you tried it in xml just for proving a point. There is a bug report somewhere out there for it.