ViewCompat and AppCompatEditText should provide an API to facilitate insertion of non-text content [173814913]

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Description

du...@google.com

created issue #1

Nov 20, 2020 09:33PM

Images and other rich content are supported by the clipboard and by the IME. However, in order to handle insertion of non-text content an app currently needs to implement multiple APIs:
* TextView.onTextContextMenuItem to handle insertion from the clipboard (paste action in the long-press toolbar menu)
* TextView.onCreateInputConnection to handle insertion from the IME

ViewCompat and AppCompatEditText should provide a single, unified listener API for apps to be able to accept content insertion regardless of the specific UI through which it comes in.

Comments

al...@google.com <al...@google.com> Nov 30, 2020 04:45PM

Reassigned to si...@google.com.

du...@google.com <du...@google.com> #2Nov 30, 2020 08:28PM

I had the same problem today, and this could be related to

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=67376

As a temporary fix, I changed the build.gradle from

dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.9.+'
}

to:

dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.9.0'
}

ap...@google.com <ap...@google.com> #3Dec 4, 2020 08:53PM

That seems to have worked around the problem - thank you very much.

Maybe this should be merged into 67376?

ap...@google.com <ap...@google.com> #4Dec 8, 2020 06:33PM

The same problem when using list navigation mode. Just place the following line in onCreate() to get an app crash!

getSupportActionBar().setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_LIST);

si...@google.com <si...@google.com> Dec 8, 2020 07:44PM

Reassigned to du...@google.com.

du...@google.com <du...@google.com> Dec 8, 2020 08:18PM

Marked as fixed.

ap...@google.com <ap...@google.com> #5Jan 28, 2021 02:42AM

You saved my day - Thx

jd...@gmail.com <jd...@gmail.com> #6May 11, 2021 08:51AM

mark, i had same problem, Thx