Anyone figured out yet how to do `textView.setImeH...

# compose

[Jacob Ras]

Anyone figured out yet how to do textView.setImeHintLocales(LocaleList(someLocale)) with Compose's TextField? (It's an API that tells the keyboard what language to input, so it changes to Cyrillic, for example)

[Halil Ozercan]

Unfortunately this is not possible at the moment with the existing TextField APIs.

issuetracker.google.com/232974604

please +1.

[Jacob Ras]

I can't, @Halil Ozercan:
> Access is denied to this issue

[Halil Ozercan]

Ugh, I didn't realize it was internal. I couldn't find a bug for hintLocales in the public component. Would you like to create one?

[Jacob Ras]

Will do

[Jacob Ras]

I did find a public issue: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/298005649, so I +1'd that one instead

[Jacob Ras]

So for those who replied same above (cc @Stylianos Gakis @andrew): if you're looking for something to +1, there it is 😄

[andrew]

Ah, I just was replying same because I couldn't see it either lol, though the issue doesn't apply to me necessarily, I'll +1 it. Seems an obvious shortcoming

[andrew]

Looks like it's assigned too, hopefully a fix comes soon!

[Jacob Ras]

That this API isn't available yet tells me Duolingo isn't using Compose in their input screens yet, because it switches locale there 😄

[andrew]

Or they could be wrapping an android view for that specific instance 😉

[Jacob Ras]

Good point 😉

[andrew]

Granted, lord knows what their tech stack consists of other than it's native currently!

[andrew]

I haven't kept up with their tech blog enough haha

[Halil Ozercan]

r.android.com/2969214

[Halil Ozercan]

This should work with both the existing TextField APIs and the upcoming BasicTextField2

[Jacob Ras]

Awesome! API looks exactly like how I would expect the Compose variant to look 🥳

[Halil Ozercan]

yeah it was an easy one to add thanks to the existing abstractions around the similar concepts