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Question by mr-sambarlow · Nov 17, 2014 at 04:24 PM · androidiosmobilekeyboardhighlight

Mobile Keyboards -- Highlighting all text by default when keyboard is opened (iOS vs. Android)

Hi, I have a Textfield in my game. When the user clicks on it, the iOS or Android keyboard pops up so they can type into it (and continue by pressing return/etc).

The behavior is different:

  • On IOS, the keyboard opens with the text in it and the cursor is placed at the end, nothing is $$anonymous$$ghlighted. Therefore, if you start typing you append to the text already in the field

  • On Android, the keyboard opens with the text in it and all the text is $$anonymous$$ghlighted. Therefore, if you start typing you overwrite the existing text -- unless you touch again to place a cursor and turn off the $$anonymous$$ghlight

  • (Also, on PC and Mac -- the behavior is the same as on Android, the text is $$anonymous$$ghlighted when I mouse click into the textfield, and overwrites unless I click again or use arrow keys to unselect)

I would like to make the behavior the same, and ideally have both keyboards work like the android (auto-$$anonymous$$ghlight the text you are editing).

Is this possible?

--Sam

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I doubt it, at least without writing your own platform specific extension code in the platform's environment.

This sounds like platform specific behaviour.

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