Pressing return on Android does not move cursor to new line.

[martinstoeckli]

On some Android devices, when pressing the cursor does not move to the next line, even if a new line was added to the text. This behaviour started end of 2020 after an update of the GBoard app.

[martinstoeckli]

Seems it is a combination of the WebView component and the Android Gboard. Only on Android 10 with standard keyboard.

[martinstoeckli]

The problem can be reproduced if a "normal" character is the last character before the cursor, as soon as there is special character like a space or comma, the line break works as expected. The same I can reproduce not only with the Quill editor, the problem also exists e.g. with the slate editor.

The problem does not happen with alternative keyboards, but those do not always use IME composition. It seems that after the event.keyCode === 229, there is no following keydown event with the newline.

[martinstoeckli]

Filed an issue on: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/177757645

[gitzila]

Also happens with Android 11, webview 91.0.4472.164 (447216434) and gboard 10.8.06.382062350-beta-arm64-v8a (60781002).

[martinstoeckli]

I'm currently trying to replace the editor with ProseMirror, which can work around this issue. It doesn't look as Google would fix this issue any time soon and ProseMirror will also allow to implement more features like tables and seems to be more future proof in general.

The work is done in the branch feture/prose-mirror.

[martinstoeckli]

This issue is solved in version 7.0.0. SilentNotes is now based on ProseMirror which can handle the keyboard events correctly.

[martinstoeckli]

It seems that Google also has fixed the issue on Jan 2023, see https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/177757645#comment21