Is there a way to make the cursor jump to the next TextField on (hardware keyboard) tab-press? Is th...

# compose

[Alex]

Is there a way to make the cursor jump to the next TextField on (hardware keyboard) tab-press? Is there some way to enable this?

[hfhbd]

https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/tree/master/tutorials/Tab_Navigation

[Alex]

I'll check it out, thanks!

[Dmitrii Smirnov]

i guess KeyboardActions.onNext() might be useful, but I didn't try it myself

[Alex]

I can move to the next textfield fine with the onscreen keyboard via ImeAction.Next, it's with pressing tab on hardware keyboards that I have a problem. The textfield just adds a tab-character into the textfield instead of jumping to the next textfield.

[Alex]

this does not happen with xml based EditTexts

[Alex]

HardwareKeyboard support seems to be pretty basic at this point: For example when I set a TextField to singleline = true and then use the enter key I can still create multiple lines and type (the textfield wont expand, but the cursor disappears and I can type)

[Alex]

After some debugging I have found that compose textfields treat every native key command as a letter, so tabbing support with hardware keyboards does not exist

internal actual val KeyEvent.isTypedEvent: Boolean
    get() = nativeKeyEvent.action == android.view.KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN &&
        nativeKeyEvent.unicodeChar != 0

Maybe it's coming in the future?

[Ralston Da Silva]

Since this works differently from EditText, this is probably a bug

[Ralston Da Silva]

Filed https://issuetracker.google.com/197978180 to keep track of this