Hello! I had a discussion about text field focus ...

# compose

[Philip Dukhov]

Hello!

I had a discussion about text field focus on issue tracker, but probably slack is a better place to continue it.

I can’t understand, why would text field need focus after keyboard is dismissed?

Google engineer says: “It allows the user to dismiss the keyboard, but still continue typing on the keyboard without the user having to hit tab multiple times to re-focus on the TextField that was previously focused.“.

What means “hit tab multiple times to re-focus” here? User needs one click on text field to start editing, no matter focused it or not, am I missing something? Is there another way to show keyboard for a focused text field?

[Albert Chang]

If I understood it correctly, it means that there may also be a hardware keyboard. After you dismiss the software keyboard, the focus won't be cleared so that you can continue typing with the hardware keyboard. You can test this in an emulator.

[Philip Dukhov]

But if I don’t have a hardware keyboard, what’s the point of the focus to stay on the text field?

[Albert Chang]

To maintain a consistent behavior.