No text-predictions on Android with SwiftKey

[svzi]

What you're trying to accomplish
Use text-predictions with the Android SwiftKey keyboard with this plugin. It does not work in my project, so I decided to try the demo app for cordova-plugin-native-keyboard and it didn't work as well on my phones.

What did you do
I created a blank project and added the plugins as instructed by the Readme then coppied over the contents of demo/index.html to my www folder. I then used cordova platform add android and cordova run android to sideload the app onto my phone.

What you expected to happen
Using text-predictions while I type as I normally do with SwiftKey as my default keyboard.

What actually happened
No text-predictions are shown with the SwiftKey keyboard. When I switched back to Gboard, the factory installed keyboard for my phone, the text-predictions worked. All other apps, at least all apps I know about, use text-predictions with SwiftKey. I wouldn't use SwiftKey for years if that keyboard didn't support text-predictions...

I've prepared a short video:
https://streamable.com/z8dpl

This isue may also somewhat related to #80, at least it's both SwiftKey. And with over 100.000.000 installs for SwiftKey, I guess it's somewhat popular among Android users and no niche app.

Cordova Information

Node version: v6.11.4

Cordova version: 8.0.0

Config.xml file:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<widget id="io.cordova.hellocordova" version="1.0.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0">
    <name>HelloCordova</name>
    <description>
        A sample Apache Cordova application that responds to the deviceready event.
    </description>
    <author email="[email protected]" href="http://cordova.io">
        Apache Cordova Team
    </author>
    <content src="index.html" />
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-whitelist" spec="1" />
    <access origin="*" />
    <allow-intent href="http://*/*" />
    <allow-intent href="https://*/*" />
    <allow-intent href="tel:*" />
    <allow-intent href="sms:*" />
    <allow-intent href="mailto:*" />
    <allow-intent href="geo:*" />
    <platform name="android">
        <allow-intent href="market:*" />
    </platform>
    <platform name="ios">
        <allow-intent href="itms:*" />
        <allow-intent href="itms-apps:*" />
    </platform>
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-native-keyboard" spec="^1.5.5">
        <variable name="LICENSE" value="9e34376354dcbe8187a1" />
    </plugin>
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-console" spec="^1.1.0" />
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-actionsheet" spec="^2.3.3" />
    <engine name="ios" spec="^4.5.4" />
    <engine name="android" spec="^6.4.0" />
</widget>


Plugins:

cordova-plugin-actionsheet,cordova-plugin-console,cordova-plugin-native-keyboard,cordova-plugin-whitelist

Android platform:

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The "android" command is deprecated.
For manual SDK, AVD, and project management, please use Android Studio.
For command-line tools, use tools/bin/sdkmanager and tools/bin/avdmanager
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Running /usr/local/Caskroom/android-sdk/3859397/tools/bin/avdmanager list target

Available Android targets:==============] 100% Fetch remote repository...
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id: 1 or "android-25"
     Name: Android API 25
     Type: Platform
     API level: 25
     Revision: 3

iOS platform:

Xcode 9.4
Build version 9F1027a

[EddyVerbruggen]

Wasn't this solved with #56?

[svzi]

Nope, afair you made the text-prediction settings configurable in that issue. And that worked, but I've tested that configuration on a device without SwiftKey, so everything looked fine (as you can see in the video from my initial post).

[svzi]

@EddyVerbruggen Any update on this?

[EddyVerbruggen]

Hi @svzi, thanks for the detailed bug report! I had to do some trial and error to figure out why SwiftKey didn't play nice, but it seems like it's sorted. Just upgrade to 1.5.6 and set suppressSuggestions: false and both predictions and swiping should work.

[gregavola]

@EddyVerbruggen with false selected, I get no predictions - and no swiping with SwiftKey for some reason.

[EddyVerbruggen]

@gregavola On what device etc?

I’m trying to enjoy a little vacation so don’t expect swift answers..

[gregavola]

So far it’s every device I’ve tested it upon. Nexus 5, emulator. I’ll get you more specifics.