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

There is a report about it in kotlinlang Slack: https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C01D6HTPATV/p1706005056105739

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

Thanks for the report!

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

The release notes documentation has been edited to clarify this change in behavior for line height.

To support non-standard text sizes, we encourage users to follow the Material design system and use a different type scale rather than changing the font size directly. Alternatively, users can overwrite the line height like so: style = LocalTextStyle.current.copy(lineHeight = TextUnit.Unspecified), or create a custom Typography entirely.

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

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

In my case, I have multiple font sizes in the same Text (using SpanStyle in AnnotatedString). There are legitimate reasons for this. For example, when combining Chinese and English (phonetic) together (for language-learning purposes).