On iOS I’m seeing a strange behaviour that I can’t understand. With most apps, if you are not in a t...

# compose-ios

[james]

On iOS I’m seeing a strange behaviour that I can’t understand. With most apps, if you are not in a text field and you use the Apple Pencil, it works basically the same as your finger, in that you can scroll, swipe, etc with it. But a Compose app, iOS seems to think the entire Compose view is a text field or something. It activates the “scribble” functionality and sometimes pops the keyboard up. Anyone else seen this behaviour?

[Dima Avdeev]

Yes, for now all Compose is a big TextField for iOS.
It implements UITextInput protocol.

But, we are searching the way to do it more flexible. I am working on it, as well as on other TextFields bugs.

[Dima Avdeev]

For now, our focus is to make better experience on phones. Without Apple Pencil.

[james]

oh wow, no problems! thanks for letting me know, I think your reply might help me to fix the issue for my own use-case anyway — I will try this evening

as a side note: how can I help? I’m enjoying Compose multiplatform and there are plenty of evenings I can dedicate hours to the project if that will help JB and the community

are there public issues tracking the TextField bugs or discussions around improving flexibility?

[Dima Avdeev]

Thanks!
For now we are using GitHub Issue tracker:
https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/issues

Most TextField Issues collected here:
https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/issues/2986

If you want to code Compose as a framework, you can follow this instruction to setup you environment:
https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform-core/blob/jb-main/MULTIPLATFORM.md