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keyboard unusably slow on Android #92

Closed AevaOnline closed 9 years ago

AevaOnline commented 12 years ago

I have tried to use the keyboard from an Android 4.0 tablet and a 4.1 phone, and on both it is unusably slow. Keys do not respond to touch, but must be "held" for a second or two before being registered.

Mottie commented 12 years ago

Hi devananda!

It's difficult for me to test this since all I own an Android phone running v2.3.5. Is it possible that another app might be interfering?

AevaOnline commented 12 years ago

That is always possible.... FWIW, I've tried killing other apps, rebooting, and disabling non-standard keyboards (eg swiftkey). None of these produced any improvement in responsiveness. I will ask a few friends with android 4.0 / 4.1 devices to check and compare performance.

TheGr8 commented 12 years ago

I had exactly the same problem, even did a hard-reset on the tablet to make sure nothing interferes. That didn't help. What worked for me is using MK with mobile extension. Unfortunately there are 2 minor issues I am still having:

  1. Slight lag while switching between the fields - tapping on the next field and it takes almost a second to switch the focus.
  2. Occasionally the keys get "stuck", see the letter "O" on the screenshot - http://www.shareimages.com/image.php?61956-p5GbmZGcm6eilqeY-android.jpg
TheGr8 commented 11 years ago

I ended up scratching Mottie Keyboard and trying a couple of other ones. I kept having the same issue. Apparently, there's a 300ms delay on mobile platforms between the actual tap on the screen and firing of the "click" event. Here's something that may help other people:

https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick

this library "converts" click events to "touchstart" events.

Mottie commented 10 years ago

Please try out the latest version. It now builds a keyboard only once per layout, adds and removes the keyboard from the DOM and memory when not visible.

Mottie commented 9 years ago

I'm guessing this issue has been resolved, so I'm going to close it. If you continue to have problems, please feel free to continue this discussion.